"pencil lead" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: pencil leads [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} pencil lead (countable and uncountable, plural pencil leads)
  1. The material (usually black or dark gray) which allows a pencil to work. Usually a mixture of graphite and smaller amounts of other material, but not actual lead. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Carbon, Stationery Translations (material): lyijykynän lyijy (Finnish), mine [feminine] (French), ਸਿੱਕਾ (sikkā) [masculine] (Punjabi), stift (Swedish)

Inflected forms

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