noun
- plural of quintal; units of weight equal to 100 kilograms or approximately 220 pounds
Usage: metric system
Examples
- The farmer harvested fifteen quintals of wheat this season.
- Rice production increased by several quintals per hectare.
- The shipment weighed exactly twenty quintals.
- Agricultural yields are often measured in quintals.
- The warehouse can store up to fifty quintals of grain.
- Export records showed hundreds of quintals of coffee beans.