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ORPIMENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does orpiment mean?
• ORPIMENT (noun)
The noun ORPIMENT has 1 sense:
1. a yellow mineral occurring in conjunction with realgar; an ore of arsenic
Familiarity information: ORPIMENT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A yellow mineral occurring in conjunction with realgar; an ore of arsenic
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Hypernyms ("orpiment" is a kind of...):
mineral (solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition)
Meronyms (substance of "orpiment"):
arsenic; As; atomic number 33 (a very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms; arsenic and arsenic compounds are used as herbicides and insecticides and various alloys; found in arsenopyrite and orpiment and realgar)
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