HAILSTONE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small pellet of ice that falls during a hailstorm

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Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("hailstone" is a kind of...):

ice; water ice (water frozen in the solid state)

Holonyms ("hailstone" is a part of...):

hail (precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents)

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