precious metal


noun

a metal of the gold, silver, or platinum group.

Example sentences from the Web for precious metal

  • Here then in Franklin county it is recorded that the last horse belonging to Coronado and his band of precious-metal hunters died.

    Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences |Nebraska Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution

British Dictionary definitions for precious metal

precious metal

noun

any of the metals gold, silver, or platinum