Ekabor /(ĕk"ȧ*bōr`)/
Ek·a·bor
Ekabor
n.
- The name given by Mendelejeff in accordance with the periodic law, and by prediction, to a hypothetical element then unknown, but since discovered and named scandium; -- so called because it was a missing analogue of the boron group. See Scandium. (Chem.)