native sulfur

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   an old name for sulfur

   Synonymsbrimstonenative sulphur

   Broadersulfur

Questions about native sulfur

What does native sulfur mean?

native sulfur means "an old name for sulfur".

What is another word for native sulfur?

Close synonyms include brimstone, native sulphur. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is native sulfur a common word?

native sulfur is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.