pontoon plane

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   a seaplane equipped with pontoons for landing or taking off from water

   Synonymsfloatplane

   Broaderseaplane

Questions about pontoon plane

What does pontoon plane mean?

pontoon plane means "a seaplane equipped with pontoons for landing or taking off from water".

What is another word for pontoon plane?

Close synonyms include floatplane. 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 pontoon plane a common word?

pontoon plane 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.