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auriferous

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10 lettersPronunciation /ɔːˈɹɪfəɹəs/Part of speech adjectiveSorted aefiorrsuuStarts with AEnds with S0 clues
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Definitions

  1. containing gold

Word origin

From Latin aurifer (“gold-bearing”) + the English suffix -ous. The Latin term in turn derived from aurum (“gold”) + ferō (“to carry”).

Used in a sentence

  • Rocks rich in gems, and mountains big with mines, / That on the high equator ridgy riſe, / Whence many a burſting ſtream auriferous plays: [...]
  • To these [compounds] belong native gold, alloys of gold and silver, and the argentiferous gold, or auriferous silver, obtained from the assayings of auriferous minerals and ores.
  • In some places, however, quartz reefs, payably auriferous while in Silurian rock, have been followed down to subjacent granite, and have there been found to thin out and become unprofitable [...]

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