troy grain
English
editEtymology
editMorphologically, from Troyes, town in Northern France + grain, unit of mass
Noun
edittroy grain (plural troy grains)
- A unit of mass, equal to 1/24 of a pennyweight or 1/480 of a troy ounce, fixed at 0.064 798 91 grams under the metric system.
- Synonym: grain
- Hypernym: grain
- Coordinate terms: troy ounce, troy pound