footballène
French, noun\fut.bo.lɛn\
footballène is a French masculine noun meaning “buckminsterfullerène” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Molécule sphérique constituée de soixante atomes de carbone et ressemblant à un ballon de football”.
What does footballène mean in English?
noun
- 1
informalmasculinebuckminsterfullerène
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Molécule sphérique constituée de soixante atomes de carbone et ressemblant à un ballon de football.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of footballène
- footballènes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce footballène?
- \fut.bo.lɛn\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.