English Dictionary

mercury

/ˈməː.kjʊ.ɹi/

noun

A silvery-colored, toxic, metallic chemical element, liquid at room temperature, with atomic number 80 and symbol Hg.

Mercury is a silvery-colored liquid metal.

意味（1）

A silvery-colored, toxic, metallic chemical element, liquid at room temperature, with atomic number 80 and symbol Hg.

意味（2）

(sciences, historical) One of the elemental principles formerly thought to be present in all metals.

意味（3）

(with definite article) Ambient pressure or temperature (from the use of mercury in barometers and thermometers).

The mercury there has averaged 37.6°C, 2.3°C above the February norm.

意味（4）

(obsolete) Liveliness, volatility.

He was so full of mercury that he could not fix long in any friendship, or to any design.

意味（5）

An annual plant, annual mercury (Mercurialis annua), formerly grown for its medicinal properties; French mercury, herb mercury.

Towards the tops of the stalks and branches come forth at every joint in the male Mercury two small round green heads, standing together upon a short footstalk, which growing ripe are the seeds, not having any flower.

意味（6）

Any plant of any species of the genus and the genus Mercurialis.

意味（7）

A similar edible plant (Blitum bonus-henricus), otherwise known as English mercury or allgood.

意味（8）

(US, regional) The poison oak or poison ivy.