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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

illinium en · NOUN

Etymology

From Illinois + -ium, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, which made an unverifiable claim to have discovered the element in 1926.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete, uncountable) A rejected name for promethium.