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Definition: GLUCINUM |
GLUCINUMNoun1. A rare metallic element, of a silver white color, and low specific gravity (2.1), resembling magnesium. It never occurs naturally in the free state, but is always combined, usually with silica or alumina, or both; as in the minerals phenacite, chrysoberyl, beryl or emerald, euclase, and danalite. It was named from its oxide glucina, which was known long before the element was isolated. Symbol Gl. Atomic weight 9.1. Called also beryllium. |
Etymology: Glucinum \Glu*ci"num\, noun. [Compare to the French expression glucinium, glycium, from the Greek expression, sweet. Compare to Glycerin.]. (references) |
Crosswords: GLUCINUM |
| English words defined with "GLUCINUM": Danalite ♦ Glucina, Glucinic. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "GLUCINUM": Glucina. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "GLUCINUM"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | glucinium (glucinium). (various references) | |
Dutch | glucinium (glucinium). (various references) | |
French | glucinium (glucinium). (various references) | |
German | Glucinium (glucinium). (various references) | |
Greek | γλυκίνιο (glucinium). (various references) | |
Hungarian | berillium (beryllium). (various references) | |
Italian | glucinio (beryllium, glucinium). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ucinumglay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | glucínio (glucinium). (various references) | |
Spanish | glucinio (glucinium). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | гліциній (glucinium), берилій (beryllium, glucinium). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "GLUCINUM": glucinums. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "GLUCINUM" (pronounced 'Glu*ci"num'): Alburnum, Arcanum, Crinum, damnum, INTERREGNUM, jejunum, Laburnum, Linum, magnum, Mesosternum, molybdenum, Omosternum, Presternum, Prosternum, Sagapenum, Solanum, sphagnum, Stannum, sternum, Verumontanum, Viburnum, Vinum. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: cingulum. | |
| Words within the letters "c-g-i-l-m-n-u-u" | |
-1 letter: culming. | |
-2 letters: cluing, cumuli, muling. | |
-3 letters: cling, clung, cuing, cumin, linum, lungi, mucin. | |
-4 letters: culm, glim, glum, iglu, limn, ling, lung, muni, unci. | |
-5 letters: cig, cum, gin, gnu, gul, gum, gun, lin, lug, lum, mig, mil, mug, mun, nil, nim, ulu. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-g-i-l-m-n-u-u" | |
+1 letter: glucinums. | |
+2 letters: cumulating. | |
+3 letters: outmuscling, uncrumpling. | |
+4 letters: accumulating, mucilaginous. | |
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