Word.ws English Dictionary

zirconoid

zirconoid noun: a double eight-sided pyramid, a form common with tetragonal crystals.

Noun

zirconoid (plural zirconoids)

  1. A double eight-sided pyramid, a form common with tetragonal crystals.

Forms of zirconoid

pluralzirconoids

Origin of zirconoid

From zircon + -oid, because this form often occurs in zircon crystals.

Questions about zirconoid

What does zirconoid mean?
Zirconoid means a double eight-sided pyramid, a form common with tetragonal crystals.
What part of speech is zirconoid?
Zirconoid is a noun.
What is the plural of zirconoid?
The plural of zirconoid is zirconoids.

Words near zirconoid in the dictionary

  1. zirconiums
  2. zirconocene
  3. zirconocenes
  4. zirconofluoride
  5. zirconofluorides
  6. zirconoid
  7. zirconoids
  8. zirconolite
  9. zirconolites
  10. zircons
  11. zirconyl

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: zirconoid (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “zirconoid.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/zirconoid. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.