fluid drachm

Questions about fluid drachm

What does fluid drachm mean?

fluid drachm means "a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 60 minims or 3.5516 cubic centimeters". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for fluid drachm?

Close synonyms include fluidram, fluid dram, drachm, fluidram, fluid dram. 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 fluid drachm a common word?

fluid drachm is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.