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7 letters · 14 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun any of various plastic laminates containing melamine
noun type genus of the Formicidae
originCoined in 1913 as a brand name for the material and the company producing it. Formica was originally intended as a replacement “for mica”, which was then commonly used for electrical insulation.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0