peacock ore

1. 1.

   a mineral consisting of sulfides of copper and iron that is found in copper deposits

   Synonymsbornite

   Broadermineral

Questions about peacock ore

What does peacock ore mean?

peacock ore means "a mineral consisting of sulfides of copper and iron that is found in copper deposits".

What is another word for peacock ore?

Close synonyms include bornite. 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 peacock ore a common word?

peacock ore 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.