nurdle
/ˈnəːd(ə)l
/noun (usually nurdles)
A very small pellet of plastic which serves as raw material in the manufacture of plastic products."Mermaids' tears" are small plastic pellets of waste (also known as nurdles) that wash up on beaches and look like plastic fish eggs....
- Japanese researchers are finding high concentrations of deadly chemicals clinging to floating, tapioca-size plastic pellets called nurdles.
- Moore collected baseball-size gelatinous animals called salps and found their translucent tissues clogged with bits of monofilament fishing line and nurdles.
Origin
1990s: origin uncertain.
Rhymes
- quickset
- quicksetting
- quick-sighted
- quicksilver
- quicksilvered
- quicksilverish
- quicksilverishness
- quicksilvery
- quick smart
- quick-start
- quickstep
- quick-stick
- quicksticks
- quick succession
- quick-tempered
- quick-thinking
- quickthorn
- quick time
- quick trick
- quick-turnover
- quick with child
- quick-witted
- quick-wittedness
- quick-work
- quick worker