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flossable

adj

Etymology

From floss + -able.

  1. derived from *fleus✻
  2. inherited from *flos✻
  3. derived from *plewk-✻ — “hair, fibres, tuft”
  4. derived from *flukkô✻ — “down, piece of wool, flock”
  5. derived from *flokkō✻ — “down, wool, flock”
  6. derived from floccus — “piece of wool”
  7. derived from flosche — “down, velvet”
  8. borrowed from floche
  9. suffixed as flossable — “floss + able”

Definitions

  1. Capable of being flossed.

    • bridges that have flossable pontics, and do not obliterate embrasures with overcontouring or over-large soldered areas

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for flossable. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA