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CARCINOGEN

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Dictionary entry overview: What does carcinogen mean?

• CARCINOGEN (noun)
The noun CARCINOGEN has 1 sense:

1. any substance that produces cancer

Familiarity information: CARCINOGEN used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• CARCINOGEN (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Any substance that produces cancer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

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

matter; substance (that which has mass and occupies space)

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