n.
Pronunciation: ˌ fu ̇ -l ə - ' r ē n
Function: noun
Etymology: R. Buckminster Fuller; from the resemblance of the molecules to the geodesic domes designed by Fuller
Date: 1987
: any of a class of closed hollow aromatic carbon compounds whose structures are made up of twelve pentagonal and differing numbers of hexagonal faces especially : one having a roughly spherical shape