Usually means: Carbon molecules shaped like spheres.
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  1. fullerene: Merriam-Webster
  2. fullerene: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fullerene: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fullerene: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fullerene: Vocabulary.com
  6. fullerene: Wordnik
  7. fullerene: Wiktionary
  8. fullerene: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. fullerene: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. fullerene: Dictionary.com
  11. Fullerene: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. fullerene: Rhymezone
  13. fullerene: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  14. fullerene: FreeDictionary.org
  15. fullerene: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. fullerene: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. fullerene: Encyclopedia

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  1. fullerene: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Fullerene: Eric Weisstein's World of Chemistry
  2. Fullerene: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

(Note: See fullerenes as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (fullerene)

noun:  (inorganic chemistry) Any of a class of allotropes of carbon having hollow molecules whose atoms lie at the vertices of a polyhedron having 12 pentagonal and 2 or more hexagonal faces.
noun:  (organic chemistry) Any closed-cage compound having twenty or more carbon atoms consisting entirely of 3-coordinate carbon atoms.
noun:  (chemistry, by extension) The class of carbon allotropes consisting of tubular carbon molecules (carbon nanotubes) and spheroidal carbon molecules (traditional fullerenes).

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