tanker plane

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   an airplane constructed to transport chemicals that can be dropped in order to fight a forest fire

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Questions about tanker plane

What does tanker plane mean?

tanker plane means "an airplane constructed to transport chemicals that can be dropped in order to fight a forest fire".

Is tanker plane a common word?

tanker 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.