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tellurious

tellurious is the obsolete form of tellurous.

Meaning of tellurous

Adjective

tellurous (not comparable)

  1. Containing tellurium in a higher valency than in telluric compounds.

Questions about tellurious

What is tellurious the obsolete form of?
Tellurious is the obsolete form of tellurous.

Words near tellurious in the dictionary

  1. telluride of gold and silver
  2. tellurides
  3. telluriferous
  4. tellurion
  5. tellurions
  6. tellurious
  7. tellurise
  8. tellurised
  9. tellurises
  10. tellurising
  11. tellurism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tellurious (page history and authors); tellurous (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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