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say it: guh-LEE-nuh
galena is a noun meaning "soft blue-grey mineral; lead sulfide; a major source of lead". It is pronounced /ɡəˈlinə/ — guh-LEE-nuh. It carries one recorded sense.
soft blue-grey mineral; lead sulfide; a major source of lead
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for galena come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.