asphaltum

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asphaltum (countable and uncountable, plural asphaltums)

  1. Archaic form of asphalt.
    • 1893, Scientific American: Supplement[1], volume XXXVI, Petroleum and Asphalt in California, page 14739:
      These minerals are intimately incorporated with all asphaltum, pissasphalt and petroleum.