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bismuth

  • noun
  • bĭz'məth

A chemical element (symbol ) with an atomic number of 83: a brittle silvery-white metal.

Other meanings

  1. A single atom of this element.

A kind of

  • metallic element

Word history

From Ancient Greek "ψιμύθιον" (white lead).

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “bismuth” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.