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xylonite

xylonite noun: celluloid.

Noun

xylonite (countable and uncountable, plural xylonites)

  1. (obsolete) Celluloid.
    • The youngest of the industries of Suffolk is the manufacture of xylonite.1907, William Page, The Victoria history of the county of Suffolk, Volume 2
    • A simple, effective shelf label-holder is made from strips of transparent xylonite bent in a rectangular form...1920, James Duff Brown, William Charles Berwick Sayers, Manual of library economy

xylonite meaning in Tamil

xylonite in Tamil

மரச்சத்து

Forms of xylonite

pluralxylonites

Origin of xylonite

From an old trademark, presumably xylo- + -ite.

Questions about xylonite

What does xylonite mean?
Xylonite means celluloid.
What is xylonite in Tamil?
Xylonite in Tamil is மரச்சத்து. See Xylonite meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is xylonite?
Xylonite is a noun.
What is the plural of xylonite?
The plural of xylonite is xylonites.

Words near xylonite in the dictionary

  1. xylon
  2. xylonate
  3. xylonates
  4. xylonic
  5. xylonic acid
  6. xylonite
  7. xylonites
  8. xylonolactonase
  9. xylonolactonases
  10. xylonolactone
  11. xylonolactones

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Adapted from Wiktionary: xylonite (page history and authors); xylonite (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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