yperite
English
editEtymology
editPronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ēʹpərīt, IPA(key): /ˈiːpəɹaɪt/
Noun
edityperite (countable and uncountable, plural yperites)
- Synonym of mustard gas
- 2012, F.W. Holm, Mobile Alternative Demilitarization Technologies, page 217:
- In the pre-war years the production of yperite was prepared at 6 plants in Moscow, Chapaevsk, Stalingrad, Dzerzhinsk, Berezniki and Stalinogorsk.
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- “yperite” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989]