Plurale tantum
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A plurale tantum (plural: pluralia tantum) is a noun that appears only in the plural and does not have a singular. Many languages have pluralia tantum, such as the English word "scissors".
The converse term, for a noun which appears only in the singular, is singulare tantum (plural: singularia tantum), for example the English word "dust".
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