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footballene

footballene noun: buckminsterfullerene.

Noun

footballene (uncountable)

  1. buckminsterfullerene

Origin of footballene

From football + -ene, because the structure resembles a football, or soccer ball.

Questions about footballene

What does footballene mean?
Footballene means buckminsterfullerene.
What part of speech is footballene?
Footballene is a noun.

Words near footballene in the dictionary

  1. football tennis
  2. Football War
  3. football-player
  4. football-players
  5. footballed
  6. footballene
  7. footballer
  8. footballers
  9. footballese
  10. footballfish
  11. footballfishes

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