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anhydrous meaning

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WAnhydrous
  • A substance is anhydrous if it contains no water, for example, salts lacking their water of crystallisation. The way of achieving the anhydrous form differs from one substance to another.

    Definition of anhydrous in English Dictionary

  • AdjectiveCOMmore anhydrousSUPmost anhydrousPREan-SUF-ous
    1. having little or no water.
    • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
      1. Adjectives
        • Morphemes
          • Prefixes
            • Words by prefix
              • Words prefixed with an-
            • Suffixes
              • Words by suffix
                • Words suffixed with -ous
                • Suffixes that form adjectives from nouns
                  • Words suffixed with -ous

            Other Vocabulary

            Look-Alike Words
            1. en enhydrous
            2. fr anhydres
            3. en enhydros
            4. en anandrous
            5. fr anhydride
            Source: Wiktionary

            Meaning of anhydrous for the defined word.

            Grammatically, this word "anhydrous" is an adjective. It's also a morpheme, more specifically, a prefixe and a suffixe.
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