Usually means: Rare earth metals, chemically similar.
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  1. lanthanide: Merriam-Webster
  2. lanthanide: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lanthanide: Collins English Dictionary
  4. lanthanide: Vocabulary.com
  5. lanthanide: Wordnik
  6. lanthanide: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. lanthanide: Wiktionary
  8. lanthanide: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. lanthanide: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. lanthanide: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. lanthanide: Dictionary.com
  12. Lanthanide: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. lanthanide: Rhymezone
  14. lanthanide: FreeDictionary.org
  15. lanthanide: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. lanthanide: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. lanthanide: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. lanthanide: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. lanthanide: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lanthanide: Eric Weisstein's World of Chemistry
  2. General Chemistry Online (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (lanthanide)

noun:  (chemistry) Any of the 15 rare earth elements from lanthanum to lutetium in the periodic table; because their outermost orbitals are not filled, they have very similar chemistry; below them are the actinides.
noun:  (chemistry) Any of the 14 rare earth elements from lanthanum to ytterbium (lutetium is excluded by some authors as it is a d-block rather than an f-block element).
noun:  (chemistry, dated) Any of the 14 rare earth elements from cerium to lutetium (lanthanum having been excluded because it was thought to be a d-block element in the past).

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