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vinal

vinal noun: polyvinyl alcohol fibers.

Noun (1)

vinal (uncountable)

  1. (US) polyvinyl alcohol fibers

Adjective

vinal (not comparable)

  1. Produced by, or originating in, wine.
    • To return then to the great chanel, and thread of our Diſcourse, the examples and experiment which I have already inſiſted upon in confirmation of the reaſons which I have alleged, do dearly demonſtrate, that the bodies which draw the atomes diſpersed in the aire, attract unto themſelves with a...1658, R. White, transl., A Late Discourse Made in a Solemn Assembly of Nobles and Learned Men at Montpellier in France, by Sir Kenelm Digby, Kᵗ. &c. Touching the Cure of Wounds by the Powder of...
    • Their vinal Steams evaporating, they / Felt of their uſual Vigour a Decay;[…]a. 1700, Thomas Ken, “Edmund: An Epic Poem”, in The Works of the Right Reverend, Learned and Pious Thomas Ken, D. D. Late Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells, volume II, London: […] John Wyat […]...

Noun (2)

vinal (uncountable)

  1. Prosopis ruscifolia

Forms of vinal

alternative formvinylal

Origin of vinal

Introduced as a generic term by the Federal Trade Commission.

From Latin vīnālis (rare), from vīnum (“wine”), or directly from vīnum + -al.

Words that rhyme with vinal

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Questions about vinal

What does vinal mean?
Vinal means polyvinyl alcohol fibers.
What part of speech is vinal?
Vinal can be a noun or an adjective.

Words near vinal in the dictionary

  1. vinaigretted
  2. vinaigrettes
  3. vinaigrier
  4. vinaigriers
  5. vinaigrous
  6. vinal
  7. Vinalhaven
  8. Vinalia
  9. vinalon
  10. Vinamra
  11. vinarian

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