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osmous

osmous is the alternative form of osmious.

Meaning of osmious

Adjective

osmious (not comparable)

  1. Denoting those compounds of osmium in which the element has a valence relatively lower than in the osmic compounds.
    • osmious chloride

Questions about osmous

What is osmous the alternative form of?
Osmous is the alternative form of osmious.

Words near osmous in the dictionary

  1. osmotrophically
  2. osmotrophs
  3. osmotrophy
  4. osmotropotactic
  5. osmotropotaxis
  6. osmous
  7. Osmow
  8. Osmows
  9. Osmun
  10. osmund
  11. osmunda

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Adapted from Wiktionary: osmous (page history and authors); osmious (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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