Usually means: Thick, black, petroleum-based material.
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  1. bitumen: Merriam-Webster
  2. bitumen: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bitumen: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bitumen, the bitumen: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bitumen: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bitumen, bitumen: Wordnik
  7. bitumen: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. bitumen: Wiktionary
  9. bitumen: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bitumen: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bitumen: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. bitumen: Dictionary.com
  13. bitumen: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Bitumen: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Bitumen: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. bitumen: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. bitumen: Rhymezone
  18. Bitumen: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. bitumen: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. bitumen: FreeDictionary.org
  21. bitumen: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. bitumen: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. bitumen: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bitumen: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

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  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

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  1. bitumen: Encyclopedia

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  1. bitumen: Medical dictionary

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  1. bitumen: Magic or Madness

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bitumen: Easton Bible

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bitumen: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets

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  1. bitumen: Urban Dictionary

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  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Roofing Terms (No longer online)
  3. Oil Analysis (No longer online)
  4. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

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noun:  A sticky, black, highly viscous liquid or semi-solid form of petroleum, burning with a bright flame. It occurs as an abundant natural product in many places, as on the shores of the Dead and Caspian Seas. It is used in cements, in the construction of pavements, etc.; Mineral pitch.
noun:  (by extension) Any one of the natural hydrocarbons, including the hard, solid, brittle varieties called asphalt, the semisolid maltha and mineral tars, the oily petrolea, and even the light, volatile naphthas.
noun:  (Australia, colloquial) Roads sealed with bitumen, as opposed to dirt roads.
noun:  (Canada) Canadian deposits of extremely heavy crude oil.
verb:  To cover or fill with bitumen.

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