gypsum
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 14
- Words With Friends
- 17
- Letters
- 6
/ˈd͡ʒɪp.səm/
(UK)
Definition of gypsum
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(countable, uncountable)A mineral consisting of hydrated calcium sulphate. When calcinated, it forms plaster of Paris.
“...but he has been able to analyze the matter removed, and to prove it, by chemical evidence, to consist of Prussian blue, and gypsum principally.”
“Besides being abundant, gypsum is easily refined into a powder for plaster or formed into sheets of wallboard.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Latin gypsum, from Ancient Greek γύψος (gúpsos). Doublet of gesso.
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