primus stove

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   a portable paraffin cooking stove; used by campers

   SynonymsPrimus

   Broaderstove

Questions about primus stove

What does primus stove mean?

primus stove means "a portable paraffin cooking stove; used by campers".

What is another word for primus stove?

Close synonyms include Primus. 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 primus stove a common word?

primus stove 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.