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UNITED STATES DRY UNIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does United States dry unit mean? 

UNITED STATES DRY UNIT (noun)
  The noun UNITED STATES DRY UNIT has 1 sense:

1. a unit of measurement of capacity for dry substances officially adopted in the United States Customary Systemplay

  Familiarity information: UNITED STATES DRY UNIT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


UNITED STATES DRY UNIT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A unit of measurement of capacity for dry substances officially adopted in the United States Customary System

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("United States dry unit" is a kind of...):

dry measure; dry unit (a unit of capacity for dry commodities (as fruit or grain))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "United States dry unit"):

dry pint; pint (a United States dry unit equal to 0.5 quart or 33.6 cubic inches)

dry quart; quart (a United States dry unit equal to 2 pints or 67.2 cubic inches)

peck (a United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605 cubic inches)

bushel (a United States dry measure equal to 4 pecks or 2152.42 cubic inches)


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