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EMBALMER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does embalmer mean?
• EMBALMER (noun)
The noun EMBALMER has 1 sense:
1. a mortician who treats corpses with preservatives
Familiarity information: EMBALMER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A mortician who treats corpses with preservatives
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("embalmer" is a kind of...):
funeral director; funeral undertaker; mortician; undertaker (one whose business is the management of funerals)
Derivation:
embalm (preserve a dead body)
Context examples
A chemical used in manufacturing and chemical industries, and as a preservative by anatomists, embalmers, and pathologists.
(Formaldehyde, NCI Dictionary)
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