Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Containing gold; gold-bearing.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Yielding or producing gold; containing gold: as, auriferous quartz; auriferous strata.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Gold-bearing; containing or producing gold.
- adjective iron pyrites (iron disulphide), containing some gold disseminated through it.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Containing or producing
gold ;gold-bearing
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective containing gold
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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The place which I know as auriferous is some miles distant, the way rugged.
The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English
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The place which I know as auriferous is some miles distant, the way rugged.
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The place which I know as auriferous is some miles distant, the way rugged.
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You know something of what I think you call auriferous geology.
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This "auriferous" town is indeed a marvellous place, lying on the crest of a hill at an elevation of 5,000 feet above the level of the sea.
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Motto: “Or et fer” (no allusion to Ophir or auriferous).
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The explorers came upon an auriferous discovery.
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At twenty-one miles crossed the Douglas, coming from north-north-west; the country from it to the north-west and north looked quite white with quartz, and showed signs of being auriferous.
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Thenceforth for some weeks backward and forward rush mysterious men with no names, who fly about all those particular parts of the country on which Doodle is at present throwing himself in an auriferous and malty shower, but who are merely persons of a restless disposition and never do anything anywhere.
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African Ghats did not prove auriferous; both fulfil all the required conditions, and both await actual discovery.
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