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TOILET BOWL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does toilet bowl mean?
• TOILET BOWL (noun)
The noun TOILET BOWL has 1 sense:
1. the bowl of a toilet that can be flushed with water
Familiarity information: TOILET BOWL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The bowl of a toilet that can be flushed with water
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("toilet bowl" is a kind of...):
bowl (a round vessel that is open at the top; used chiefly for holding food or liquids)
Holonyms ("toilet bowl" is a part of...):
can; commode; crapper; pot; potty; stool; throne; toilet (a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination)
Context examples
It is used primarily as a space deodorant in products such as room deodorizers, urinal and toilet bowl blocks, and as an insecticide fumigant for moth control.
(Paradichlorobenzene, NCI Thesaurus)
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