- Cavendish as a noun:
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Cavendish
noun
1 Cavendish
British chemist and physicist who established that water is a compound of hydrogen and oxygen and who calculated the density of the earth (1731-1810).
synonym: Henry Cavendish.
Dutch: tablettabal
Roget 392: pungency, piquance, piquancy, poignancy haut-gout, strong taste, twang, race. sharpness etc. adj.; acrimony; roughness etc. (sour) ... show more
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