The Collaborative International Dictionary
organometallic \or`ga*no*me*tal"lic\, a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or denoting, any one of a series of compounds of certain metallic elements bound to organic radicals; such as, methylmercury, zinc methyl, sodium ethyl, etc.; formerly refered to as metalorganic.
metalorganic \met`al*or*gan"ic\, a. [Metal, L. metallum + E. organic.] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or denoting, any one of a series of compounds of certain metallic elements with organic radicals; as, zinc methyl, sodium ethyl, etc.; now usually organometallic.
Wiktionary
a. (context chemistry English) of, or relating to organic compounds having a metal atom directly bonded to a carbon atom n. (context chemistry English) Any organometallic compound.
Wikipedia
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Usage examples of "organometallic".
A pulpy-looking servo, whose organometallic casing and squat, smiling head had a swollen and almost diseased appearance, showed her to a chair.
It looks like an inert mineral, but it definitely has an organometallic component.
What but cybernetic technology had allowed, the downloading of those patterns that were human personality into organometallic matrices, and their joining to form something immensely more than the sum of them, and its fostering and guidance of nature everywhere around a whole world?
An organometallic casing like that was tough, and his body had absorbed most of the energy in the bullets that hit there.
Through a bit of luck I was able to identify the stimulator of the red tide as a most unusual organometallic compound, a combination of a synthetic amino acid and cobalt.