MEERSCHAUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does meerschaum mean? 

• MEERSCHAUM (noun)
  The noun MEERSCHAUM has 2 senses:

1. a white clayey mineral

2. a pipe having a bowl made of meerschaum

  Familiarity information: MEERSCHAUM used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEERSCHAUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A white clayey mineral

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

meerschaum; sepiolite

Hypernyms ("meerschaum" is a kind of...):

mineral (solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition)

Holonyms ("meerschaum" is a substance of...):

meerschaum (a pipe having a bowl made of meerschaum)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A pipe having a bowl made of meerschaum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("meerschaum" is a kind of...):

pipe; tobacco pipe (a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco)

Meronyms (substance of "meerschaum"):

meerschaum; sepiolite (a white clayey mineral)

 Context examples 

Then, as if reproaching himself for the longing that he could not repress, he went and kissed the two tousled heads upon the pillow, took down his seldom-used meerschaum, and opened his Plato.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Books and papers everywhere, a broken meerschaum, and an old flute over the mantlepiece as if done with, a ragged bird without any tail chirped on one window seat, and a box of white mice adorned the other.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)