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adjective
1.
of or pertaining to petroleum or the petroleum industry.
noun
2.
Canadian. the federally owned petroleum industry.
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Petro
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
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petro-
2a combining form meaning “petroleum,” “the extraction and export of petroleum,” used in the formation of compound words: petrochemistry; petropower.
Origin:
extracted from petroleum
extracted from petroleum
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Medical Dictionary
petro- or petri- or petr-
pref.
Rock; stone; stone-like hardness: petrous.
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