iron
n 1 : a heavy malleable ductile magnetic silver-white metallic element that readily rusts in moist air, occurs native in meteorites and combined in most igneous rocks, is the most used of metals, and is vital to biological processes (as in transport of oxygen in the body) - symbol Fe - see ELEMENTtable 2 : iron chemically combined < in the blood> iron adj
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