n :  a grayish malleable ductile polyvalent metallic element found combined in minerals and used esp. to form alloys (as vanadium steel) - symbol V - see ELEMENTtable   .
 
 
 
Similar sounding terms:  fantom   phantom  ve·not·o·my 
 
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