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wavetop

wavetop noun: the top of a wave of liquid.

Noun

wavetop (plural wavetops)

  1. The top of a wave of liquid.
    • At length I could look up, and to a sea / Of fire wavetops; not wavetops of these seas / Ægean, white wavetops or black […]1861, Richard Watson Dixon, Christ's company: and other poems, page 27

Forms of wavetop

pluralwavetops

Origin of wavetop

From wave + top.

Questions about wavetop

What does wavetop mean?
Wavetop means the top of a wave of liquid.
What part of speech is wavetop?
Wavetop is a noun.
What is the plural of wavetop?
The plural of wavetop is wavetops.

Words near wavetop in the dictionary

  1. wavest
  2. wavestacking
  3. wavetable
  4. wavetables
  5. waveth
  6. wavetop
  7. wavetops
  8. wavetrain
  9. wavetrains
  10. wavevector
  11. wavevectors

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