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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
cupro /ˈk(j)uːprəʊ/

▶noun a type of rayon made by dissolving cotton cellulose with cuprammonium salts and spinning the resulting solution into filaments.

– origin 1980s: an invented word, prob. from cuprammonium.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
cupro- /ˈkjuːprəʊ/ (also cupr- before a vowel)

▶combining form relating to copper: cupro-nickel.

– origin from late L. cuprum.

'cupro' also found in these Oxford entries:

cupr- - cupro- - cupro-nickel

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