GERMANITE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does germanite mean? 

• GERMANITE (noun)
  The noun GERMANITE has 1 sense:

1. a rare reddish-grey mineral consisting of a copper iron germanium sulfide

  Familiarity information: GERMANITE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GERMANITE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A rare reddish-grey mineral consisting of a copper iron germanium sulfide

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Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("germanite" is a kind of...):

mineral (solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition)

Meronyms (substance of "germanite"):

atomic number 32; Ge; germanium (a brittle grey crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors; occurs in germanite and argyrodite)