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volleyballene

noun

Etymology

From volleyball + -ene but based on fullerene.

  1. derived from *bʰel-✻
  2. derived from *bʰélō✻
  3. inherited from *balluz✻
  4. derived from bǫllr
  5. inherited from *beall✻
  6. inherited from bal
  7. formed as volleyball — “volley + ball”
  8. suffixed as volleyballene — “volleyball + ene”

Definitions

  1. Any of a class of compounds, having a cage-like structure based on a fullerene,…

    Any of a class of compounds, having a cage-like structure based on a fullerene, containing scandium atoms; the simplest of such compounds, Sc₂₀C₆₀

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for volleyballene. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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