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

1 sense of trace element

Sense 1
trace element -- (an element that occurs at very small quantities in the body but is nonetheless important for many biological processes)
       => chemical element, element -- (any of the more than 100 known substances (of which 92 occur naturally) that cannot be separated into simpler substances and that singly or in combination constitute all matter)