"Plumbago" is a word in ENGLISH
Same as Graphite.
A genus of herbaceous plants with pretty salver-shaped
corollas, usually blue or violet; leadwort.
Sydney, don't leave Adrian because of me.""It's more complicated than that," I said automatically."It's really not," she said. "From everything I've seen and heard, you're just afraid. You've always controlled every detail of your life. When you couldn't-like with the Alchemists-you found a way to seize back that control.""There is nothing wrong with wanting control," I snapped."Except that we can't always have it, and sometimes that is a good thing. A great thing, even," she added. "And that's how it is with Adrian. No matter how hard you try, you aren't going to be able to control your feelings for him. You can't help loving him, and so you're running away. I'm just an excuse.
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Plumbago; graphite. It leaves a blackish mark somewhat like lead. See Graphite.
Read the complete definitionAn elementary substance, not metallic in its nature, which is present in all organic compounds. Atomic weight 11.97. Symbol C. …
Read the complete definitionA vessel or melting pot, composed of some very refractory substance, as clay, graphite, platinum, and used for melting and …
Read the complete definitionCharacterized by being separable into thin plates or folia; as, graphite has a foliated structure.
Read the complete definitionNative carbon in hexagonal crystals, also foliated or granular massive, of black color and metallic luster, and so soft as …
Read the complete definitionPertaining to, containing, derived from, or resembling, graphite.
Read the complete definitionResembling graphite or plumbago.
Read the complete definitionA suffix used in naming minerals; as, chlorite, from its characteristic green color; barite, from its heaviness; graphite, from its …
Read the complete definitionA workman's name for the graphite which forms incidentally in iron smelting.
Read the complete definitionA mineral occurring in soft, lead-gray, foliated masses or scales, resembling graphite; sulphide of molybdenum.
Read the complete definitionA slender cylinder or strip of black lead, colored chalk, slate etc., or such a cylinder or strip inserted in …
Read the complete definitionplúma n {1} ornamental feathers. {2} fountain, or dip pen, quill. {3} the graphite in pencils. v {1} [A; b(1)] …
Read the complete definitionA crucible; as, a graphite pot; a melting pot.
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