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SOMAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does soman mean?
• SOMAN (noun)
The noun SOMAN has 1 sense:
1. a nerve agent easily absorbed into the body; a lethal cholinesterase inhibitor that is highly toxic when inhaled
Familiarity information: SOMAN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A nerve agent easily absorbed into the body; a lethal cholinesterase inhibitor that is highly toxic when inhaled
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Synonyms:
GD; soman
Hypernyms ("soman" is a kind of...):
organophosphate nerve agent (any of a series of nerve agents containing organophosphate compounds first synthesized by German chemists in 1936; in World War II the Germans tested them in concentration camps but not on the battlefield; Iraq is alleged to have used them against Iran and against the Kurds)
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