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antemetallic

antemetallic adjective: before the discovery and use of metals.

Adjective

antemetallic (not comparable)

  1. Before the discovery and use of metals.

Origin of antemetallic

From ante- + metallic.

Questions about antemetallic

What does antemetallic mean?
Antemetallic means before the discovery and use of metals.
What part of speech is antemetallic?
Antemetallic is an adjective.

Words near antemetallic in the dictionary

  1. antemasques
  2. antemedial
  3. antemedian
  4. antemeridian
  5. antemeridiem
  6. antemetallic
  7. antemetic
  8. antemetics
  9. antemillennial
  10. antemodern
  11. antemolar

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