Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun buckminsterfullerene

1 sense of buckminsterfullerene

Sense 1
buckminsterfullerene, buckyball -- (a spheroidal fullerene; the first known example of a fullerene)
       => fullerene -- (a form of carbon having a large molecule consisting of an empty cage of sixty or more carbon atoms)