Kupfernickel

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The common German name of the mineral niccolite: so called because, though an ore of nickel, it has a coppery-red color.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Copper-nickel; niccolite. See niccolite.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. cupronickel
  • Word Usage
    "This was called kupfernickel which means Devil’s Copper."
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    variant
    niccolite