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ureas

ureas is the plural of urea.

Meaning of urea

Noun

urea (countable and uncountable, plural ureas)

  1. (uncountable) A water-soluble organic compound, CO(NH₂)₂, formed by the metabolism of proteins and excreted in the urine.
    • Five of them — Iran, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain — supply more than a third of the world’s urea, an important nitrogen fertilizer, and nearly a quarter of another one, ammonia. […] Over the past week, the price of urea sold in Egypt, a market that economists track...2026 March 9, Sam Sifton, “The War’s Effect on the Supermarket”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 09 Mar 2026
  2. (countable) Any N-substituted derivative of urea, with the general formula (R₁R₂N)CO(NR₃R₄).

Phrases with ureas

Questions about ureas

What is ureas the plural of?
Ureas is the plural of urea.

Words near ureas in the dictionary

  1. ureameters
  2. ureametry
  3. ureaplasma
  4. ureaplasmal
  5. ureaplasmas
  6. ureas
  7. urease
  8. ureases
  9. ureaus
  10. Urechești
  11. urechid

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