dental floss

1. 1.

   a soft thread for cleaning the spaces between the teeth

   Synonymsfloss

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Questions about dental floss

What does dental floss mean?

dental floss means "a soft thread for cleaning the spaces between the teeth".

What is another word for dental floss?

Close synonyms include floss. 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 dental floss a common word?

dental floss 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.