noun
a tasteless colorless powder used medicinally as a cathartic
• Syn: ↑calomel
• Hypernyms: ↑chloride
• Substance Holonyms: ↑blackwash, ↑black lotion
• Substance Meronyms: ↑mercury, ↑quicksilver, ↑hydrargyrum, ↑Hg, ↑atomic number 80
Useful english dictionary. 2012.