yperite
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ēʹpərīt, IPA(key): /ˈiːpəɹaɪt/
Noun[edit]
yperite (countable and uncountable, plural yperites)
- Synonym of mustard gas
- 2012, F.W. Holm, Mobile Alternative Demilitarization Technologies, page 217:
- In the pre-war years the production of yperite was prepared at 6 plants in Moscow, Chapaevsk, Stalingrad, Dzerzhinsk, Berezniki and Stalinogorsk.
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “yperite” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989]