plumbate adjective & noun2.
['plʌmbeɪt] E20.[from Latin plumbum lead + -ATE2.]A. adjective. Of, pertaining to, or designating a type of glazed and usu. monochrome pottery varying from greyish-black to dark olive in colour made in pre-Columbian Central America.
E20.b. ellipt. as
noun. Plumbate pottery.
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plumbate noun1.
['plʌmbeɪt] M19.[from Latin plumbum lead + -ATE1.]Chemistry. A salt of lead, esp. tetravalent lead, which contains oxygen or hydroxyl.
plumbate(II) a salt of divalent lead containing oxygen or hydroxyl, a plumbite.
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