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
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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 Julian Hawthorne 1890
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The place which I know as auriferous is some miles distant, the way rugged.
A Strange Story — Volume 08 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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The place which I know as auriferous is some miles distant, the way rugged.
A Strange Story — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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You know something of what I think you call auriferous geology.
The Desert Valley Jackson Gregory 1912
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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.
A Winter Tour in South Africa Frederick Young
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Motto: “Or et fer” (no allusion to Ophir or auriferous).
Modeste Mignon 2007
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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.
Bleak House 2007
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African Ghats did not prove auriferous; both fulfil all the required conditions, and both await actual discovery.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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