PARTICLE BOARD

Pronunciation (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does particle board mean? 

• PARTICLE BOARD (noun)
  The noun PARTICLE BOARD has 1 sense:

1. wallboard composed of wood chips or shavings bonded together with resin and compressed into rigid sheets

  Familiarity information: PARTICLE BOARD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PARTICLE BOARD (noun)

Meaning:

Wallboard composed of wood chips or shavings bonded together with resin and compressed into rigid sheets

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

fiberboard; fibreboard; particle board

Hypernyms ("particle board" is a kind of...):

drywall; wallboard (a wide flat board used to cover walls or partitions; made from plaster or wood pulp or other materials and used primarily to form the interior walls of houses)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "particle board"):

Masonite (a type of fiberboard)