Met`al*or*gan"ic (?), a. [Metal, L. metallum + E. organic.] Chem.

Pertaining to, or denoting, any one of a series of compounds of certain metallic elements with organic radicals; as, zinc methyl, sodium ethyl, etc.

[Written also metallorganic.]

 

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