Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to zinc, or to the negative pole of a voltaic battery.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, or containing, zinc; zincic.
- adjective Hence, formerly, basic, basylous, as opposed to
chlorous . - adjective (Physics) Of or pertaining to the positive pole of a galvanic battery; electro-positive.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, or containing,
zinc .
Etymologies
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zinc + -ous
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