Skein
Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Scrabble:9 ptsWWF:10 pts5 letters
Definition of Skein
Noun
- A quantity of thread, yarn, etc., wound on a reel then removed and loosely knotted into an oblong shape; a skein of cotton is formed by eighty turns of thread around a reel with a fifty-four inch diameter.
- A thing resembling a skein (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1) of thread, yarn, etc. The membrane of a fish ovary. A group of wildfowl (for example, geese or swans) in flight.
- The membrane of a fish ovary.
- A group of wildfowl (for example, geese or swans) in flight.
- Synonym of spireme (“the tangled mass of strands of chromatin seen in the early stages of mitosis, originally believed to be a single continuous strand (or two in a diploid cell, etc.)”).
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