Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Containing or producing pyrites.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Min.) Containing or producing pyrites.
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- adjective containing, or yielding
pyrites
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Examples
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I could not but remark that the interior, which appeared pyritiferous, did not show the slightest trace of precious metal.
The Land of Midian 2003
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I could not but remark that the interior, which appeared pyritiferous, did not show the slightest trace of precious metal.
The Land of Midian — Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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Basement consisted of a short section of graphitic pelite, followed by a pyritiferous psammo-pelite.
unknown title 2011
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