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metacinnabar

metacinnabar noun: a isometric-hextetrahedral form of the mineral, cinnabar, containing mercury and sulfur and ranging from black to grayish white.

Noun

metacinnabar (uncountable)

  1. A isometric-hextetrahedral form of the mineral, cinnabar, containing mercury and sulfur and ranging from black to grayish white.
    Synonyms:
    metacinnabarite

Synonyms of metacinnabar

Origin of metacinnabar

From meta- + cinnabar.

Questions about metacinnabar

What does metacinnabar mean?
Metacinnabar means a isometric-hextetrahedral form of the mineral, cinnabar, containing mercury and sulfur and ranging from black to grayish white.
What part of speech is metacinnabar?
Metacinnabar is a noun.

Words near metacinnabar in the dictionary

  1. metachurl
  2. metacinema
  3. metacinematic
  4. metacinematically
  5. metacingulum
  6. metacinnabar
  7. metacinnabarite
  8. metacinnabarites
  9. metacircular
  10. metacircularity
  11. metacism

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