Usually means: Pertaining to copper in +1 oxidation.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. cuprous: Merriam-Webster
  2. cuprous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cuprous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cuprous: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cuprous: Vocabulary.com
  6. cuprous: Wordnik
  7. cuprous: Wiktionary
  8. cuprous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. cuprous: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. cuprous: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. cuprous: Dictionary.com
  12. Cuprous: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Cuprous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. cuprous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. cuprous: Rhymezone
  16. Cuprous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. cuprous: FreeDictionary.org
  18. cuprous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. cuprous: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. cuprous: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. cuprous: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (cuprous)

▸ adjective:  Of, or of the nature of, copper.
▸ adjective:  (inorganic chemistry) Containing copper with an oxidation number of 1.

Similar:
cupric, cupreous, cupremic, cobaltic, zincous, metallic, argentous, cadmic, ferrous, cupressoid, more...

Opposite:
uncuprous, non-cuprous, acuprous

Phrases:
cuprous oxide, cuprous chloride, cuprous cyanide, cuprous sulfide, more...

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Similar:
cupric, cupreous, cupremic, cobaltic, zincous, metallic, argentous, cadmic, ferrous, cupressoid, more...

Opposite:
uncuprous, non-cuprous, acuprous

Phrases:
cuprous oxide, cuprous chloride, cuprous cyanide, cuprous sulfide, more...



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