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PACKING MATERIAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does packing material mean? 

PACKING MATERIAL (noun)
  The noun PACKING MATERIAL has 1 sense:

1. any material used especially to protect somethingplay

  Familiarity information: PACKING MATERIAL used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PACKING MATERIAL (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Any material used especially to protect something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

packing; packing material; wadding

Hypernyms ("packing material" is a kind of...):

material; stuff (the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "packing material"):

cardboard; composition board (a stiff moderately thick paper)

excelsior; wood shavings (thin curly wood shavings used for packing or stuffing)


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