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DRY UNIT

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A unit of capacity for dry commodities (as fruit or grain)

Synonyms:

dry measure; dry unit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("dry unit" is a kind of...):

capacity measure; capacity unit; cubage unit; cubature unit; cubic content unit; cubic measure; displacement unit; volume unit (a unit of measurement of volume or capacity)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dry unit"):

British capacity unit; Imperial capacity unit (a unit of measure for capacity officially adopted in the British Imperial System; British units are both dry and wet)

ardeb (a unit of dry measure used in Egypt)

epha; ephah (an ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel)

United States dry unit (a unit of measurement of capacity for dry substances officially adopted in the United States Customary System)

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