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mineral
/ˈmɪn.ə.ɹəl/
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What does mineral mean?
noun
- Any naturally occurring solid material that has a (more or less) definite chemical composition and characteristic physical properties; especially, an inorganic and crystalline one.
- Any inorganic material (as distinguished from animal or vegetable).
- Any inorganic element that is essential to nutrition.
More meanings (7)
noun
- Mineral water.
- (informal) A soft drink, particularly a single serve bottle or can.
- (obsolete) A mine or mineral deposit.
- (obsolete) A poisonous or dangerous substance.
adjective
- of, related to, or containing minerals
proper noun
- A census-designated place in Tehama County, California.
- A town in Louisa County, Virginia.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈmɪn.ə.ɹəl/
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Richly endowed with water, mineral resources, forests, and a climate favorable to agriculture, Liberia is a producer and exporter of basic products.
Of the three kingdoms which share the terrestrial globe between them, one alone was represented on the lunar and that the mineral.
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For it was easier to carry the mineral to the wood--then exclusively used for smelting'--than to bring the wood to the mineral.
The malachite columns for the screen are fifty feet high, and exceed everything that has yet been done in that beautiful mineral.
The plant is the great factory in which are elaborated, with mineral materials, the organic principles which are the materials of life.