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wheel well

wheel well noun: the section of a car or truck under the fender, where the wheel has space to rotate.

Noun

wheel well (plural wheel wells)

  1. The section of a car or truck under the fender, where the wheel has space to rotate.
  2. The areas in an airplane's fuselage for the landing gear to retract into.

Forms of wheel well

pluralwheel wells
alternative formwheelwell

Questions about wheel well

What does wheel well mean?
Wheel well means the section of a car or truck under the fender, where the wheel has space to rotate.
What part of speech is wheel well?
Wheel well is a noun.
What is the plural of wheel well?
The plural of wheel well is wheel wells.

Words near wheel well in the dictionary

  1. wheel urchins
  2. wheel war
  3. wheel wars
  4. wheel wash
  5. wheel washes
  6. wheel well
  7. wheel wells
  8. wheel window
  9. wheel windows
  10. wheel within a wheel
  11. wheel-barrow

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