Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Containing or yielding iron.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Containing iron or ores of iron.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Producing or yielding iron.
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- adjective Containing
iron (as in ferriferous rock).
Etymologies
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Examples
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The headland rose more than sixty feet above the sea-level, and the azure waters of the Mediterranean, as they softly kissed the strand, were tinged with the reddish hue of the ferriferous rocks that formed its base.
Off on a Comet 2003
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- Only ferriferous workplaces (steel and cast materials) are permitted to be machined on the magnetic chuck.
3. Preparing face and parallel milling Dieter Frank 1990
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The ferriferous varieties are liable to a particular kind of alteration, known as "schillerization," which results in the separation of the iron as very fine films of oxide and hydroxides along the cleavage cracks of the mineral.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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Rather than a distinct species, it is really a ferriferous variety of enstatite, which owing to partial alteration has acquired a bronze-like sub-metallic lustre on the cleavage surfaces.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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At times these noises were pierced by the clatter of little hammers, with which the smiths were beating into spear blades the lumps of iron smelted in rude furnaces from ferriferous quartz.
Sacrifice Stephen French Whitman
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The headland rose more than sixty feet above the sea-level, and the azure waters of the Mediterranean, as they softly kissed the strand, were tinged with the reddish hue of the ferriferous rocks that formed its base.
Off on a Comet 1877
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The headland rose more than sixty feet above the sea-level, and the azure waters of the Mediterranean, as they softly kissed the strand, were tinged with the reddish hue of the ferriferous rocks that formed its base.
Off on a Comet! a Journey through Planetary Space Jules Verne 1866
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