Cinnabar Definition

sĭnə-bär
noun
Mercuric sulfide, HgS, a heavy, bright-red mineral, the principal ore of mercury.
Webster's New World
Artificial mercuric sulfide, used as a red pigment.
Webster's New World
Brilliant red; vermilion.
Webster's New World
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adjective
Of a bright red colour tinted with orange.
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Other Word Forms of Cinnabar

Noun

Singular:
cinnabar
Plural:
cinnabars

Origin of Cinnabar

  • Middle English cinabare from Latin cinnabaris from Greek kinnabari

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Old French cinabre.

    From Wiktionary

Cinnabar Sentence Examples

  • Michoacan is essentially a mining region, producing gold, silver, lead and cinnabar, and having rich deposits of copper, coal, petroleum and sulphur.

  • It may be obtained direct from pure and bright coloured portions of the native ore cinnabar, or, artificially, by subliming a mixture of mercury and sulphur.

  • Veins of cinnabar are known elsewhere in the Rocky Mountain and Sierra Nevada regions but not in workable quantities.

  • Bosnia is rich in minerals, including coal, iron, copper, chrome, manganese, cinnabar, zinc and mercury, besides marble and much excellent building stone.

  • Silver and lead ores exist in the Altai and the Nerchinsk Mountains, as well as, copper, cinnabar and tin.

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Words Starting With

CCICIN

Words Ending With

RARBAR

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Words Starting With C and Ending With R

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