GALVANIZED IRON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does galvanized iron mean? 

• GALVANIZED IRON (noun)
  The noun GALVANIZED IRON has 1 sense:

1. iron that is coated with zinc to protect it from rust

  Familiarity information: GALVANIZED IRON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GALVANIZED IRON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Iron that is coated with zinc to protect it from rust

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("galvanized iron" is a kind of...):

atomic number 26; Fe; iron (a heavy ductile magnetic metallic element; is silver-white in pure form but readily rusts; used in construction and tools and armament; plays a role in the transport of oxygen by the blood)

Holonyms ("galvanized iron" is a substance of...):

corrugated iron (usually galvanized sheet iron or sheet steel shaped into straight parallel ridges and hollows)

 Context examples 

In its frozen state it was more like strips of galvanized iron, and when a dog wrestled it into his stomach it thawed into thin and innutritious leathery strings and into a mass of short hair, irritating and indigestible.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)