minelayer
(noun) ship equipped for laying marine mines
Source: WordNet® 3.1
minelayer (plural minelayers)
A ship capable of laying mines.
Source: Wiktionary
24 April 2025
(noun) an obsolete term for the network of viscous material in the cell nucleus on which the chromatin granules were thought to be suspended
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
