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auriferous, a.|ɔːˈrɪfərəs|
[f. L. aurifer (f. auri- comb. f. aurum gold + -fer producing) + -ous.]
Containing or yielding gold; lit. and fig. Hence auriferously adv.
1727Thomson Summer 648 Whence many a bursting stream auriferous plays. 1849Murchison Siluria i. (1867) 18 Those slaty rocks which bear the chief auriferous quartz-veins. 1855Dickens Dorrit ii. xvi. 390 Only one thing sat otherwise than auriferously..on Mr. Dorrit's mind. |