Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Containing quartz.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Consisting of quartz, or chiefly of quartz; containing quartz.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Min.) Consisting chiefly of quartz; containing quartz.

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  • adjective Yielding or containing quartz.

Etymologies

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quartz +‎ -iferous

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Examples

  • Other projects included the re-routing of the River Sfintu-Gheorghe by cutting a straight canal through the numerous meanders, which would speed up the flow of water and radically alter the pattern of alluvial deposition, and the exploitation of quartziferous sand from the sand dunes in particular on the Grindul-Caraorman barrier and exploitation of zircon and titan at Grindul Saraturile.

    Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve, Romania 2009

  • The principal soil types on which this ecoregion develops are quartziferous sands, pseudo-spodosols in the west and lateritic soils.

    Cuban pine forests 2008

  • As gold and silver are both extracted from quartziferous ores by treatment with potassium cyanide solution according to the

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891 Various

  • Most of Cuba’s wet forests are located over quartziferous rock, limestone, and serpentinites.

    Cuban moist forests 2008

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