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English Dictionary: auriferous by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
auriferous
adj
  1. containing gold; "auriferous quartz veins" [syn: auriferous, gold-bearing]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Auriferous \Au*rif"er*ous\, a. [L. aurifer; aurum gold + ferre
      to bear: cf. F. aurif[8a]re.]
      Gold-bearing; containing or producing gold.
  
               Whence many a bursting stream auriferous plays.
                                                                              --Thomson.
  
      {Auriferous pyrites}, iron pyrites (iron disulphide),
            containing some gold disseminated through it.
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