Definition of Holmia

1. n. An oxide of holmium.

Definition of Holmia

1. Noun. (inorganic compound) holmium oxide ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Holmia

1. an oxide [n -S] - See also: oxide

Medical Definition of Holmia

1. An oxide of holmium. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Holmia

holly blue
holly blues
holly family
holly fern
holly oak
hollygrape
hollyhock
hollyhocks
hollylike
holm
holm oak
holm oaks
holm tree
holmberry
holme
holmia (current term)
holmian
holmias
holmic
holming
holmium
holmiums
holmoi
holmos
holmquistite
holmquistites
holms
holo
holo-
holo-ACP synthase

Literary usage of Holmia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Cambrian Geology and Paleontology by Charles Doolittle Walcott (1908)
"27, fig. 7] with its spinose pleural extensions. There are differences of importance in the cephalon as compared with holmia. ..."

2. Select Methods in Chemical Analysis: (chiefly Inorganic) by William Crookes (1886)
"The erbium, holmium, and thulium nitrates decomposing before the yttrium nitrate, extraction with water gave an insoluble residue rich in erbia, holmia, ..."

3. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1905)
"281) as to be more properly referred to another genus (holmia), and the holmia fauna, as a whole, was thought to be simpler than the ..."

4. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1907)
"281) as to be more properly referred to another genus (holmia), and the holmia fauna, as a whole, was thought to be simpler than the ..."

5. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1905)
"Furthermore, the distinct Paradoxides fauna is found only in those regions where the holmia fauna occurs; it is not in immediate association with the ..."

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