Oil tanker (original) (raw)
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A cargo ship designed to carry crude oil in bulk
Synonyms:
oil tanker; oiler; tank ship; tanker
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("oil tanker" is a kind of...):
cargo ship; cargo vessel (a ship designed to carry cargo)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "oil tanker"):
supertanker (the largest class of oil tankers)