carbamide

1. 1.

   the chief solid component of mammalian urine; synthesized from ammonia and carbon dioxide and used as fertilizer and in animal feed and in plastics

   Synonymsurea

   Broaderorganic compound

Other forms of carbamide

plural

carbamides·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about carbamide

What does carbamide mean?

carbamide means "the chief solid component of mammalian urine; synthesized from ammonia and carbon dioxide and used as fertilizer and in animal feed and in plastics".

How many syllables are in carbamide?

carbamide has 3 syllables: car-ba-mide. The stress falls on "car".

What is another word for carbamide?

Close synonyms include urea. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is carbamide a common word?

carbamide is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.