Word

mercury, n.
(mercuries)
freq. cnt. 6

a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures
<noun.substance> freq. cnt.: 6 freq. cnt.: 6

Hg atomic number 80 hydrargyrum mercury quicksilver

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

mercurous mercuric mercurial

semantic pointers

hypernym

metal, metallic element

substance holonym

cinnabar calomel, mercurous chloride

temperature measured by a mercury thermometer
<noun.attribute>

mercury

sample sentences

"the mercury was falling rapidly"

semantic pointers

hypernym

temperature