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postmining

postmining adjective: having previously undergone a period of mining.

Adjective

postmining (not comparable)

  1. Having previously undergone a period of mining.
    • Worker bees were collected from hives located in a polluted postmining area in South West Sardinia (Italy) that is also exposed to dust emissions from industrial plants.2015 July 6, “Honey Bees ( Apis mellifera, L.) as Active Samplers of Airborne Particulate Matter”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of postmining

From post- + mining.

Questions about postmining

What does postmining mean?
Postmining means having previously undergone a period of mining.
What part of speech is postmining?
Postmining is an adjective.

Words near postmining in the dictionary

  1. postmineralization
  2. postminimal
  3. postminimalism
  4. postminimalist
  5. postminimalists
  6. postmining
  7. postmistress
  8. postmistresses
  9. postmitochondrial
  10. postmitotic
  11. postmitotically

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