Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, containing, or similar to iron.
- adjective Having the color of iron rust; reddish-brown.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of the color of iron-rust; light reddish brown.
- Of the nature of or containing iron.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Partaking of iron; containing particles of iron.
- adjective Resembling iron rust in appearance or color; brownish red, or yellowish red.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Containing
iron . - adjective
Rusty .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Much more recently the idea of ferruginous particles has been revived, their presence being ascribed not to volcanoes, but to the meteorites constantly being dissipated in the upper atmosphere.
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences 1904
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The series in America corresponding to this, entitled the ferruginous sand formation, presents fossils generally identical with those of
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Robert Chambers 1836
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The kind of ferruginous pavement of the boulder-clay known to the agriculturist as _pan_, which may be found extending in some cases its iron cover over whole districts, -- sealing them down to barrenness, as the iron and brass sealed down the stump of Nebuchadnezzar's tree, -- is, like the white strips and blotches of the deposit, worthy the careful notice of the geologist.
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When a company called Ausra filed plans for a big solar power plant in California, it was deluged with demands from a union group that it study the effect on creatures like the short-nosed kangaroo rat and the ferruginous hawk.
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Their animal of concern was the cactus ferruginous pygmy owl.
Freakonomics in the Times Magazine: Unintended Consequences - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Stuffed birds in flight - roseate spoonbills, a great blue heron, a ferruginous hawk - fill another case.
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Stuffed birds in flight - roseate spoonbills, a great blue heron, a ferruginous hawk - fill another case.
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Their animal of concern was the cactus ferruginous pygmy owl.
Freakonomics in the Times Magazine: Unintended Consequences - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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The plain has coarse, well-drained, generally ferruginous and relatively infertile soils.
Manovo-Gounda-St Floris National Park, Central African Republic 2009
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The area supports a number of species locally threatened or at their biogeographic limits, including golden eagle Aquila chrysaetos, prairie falcon Falco mexicanus, ferruginous hawk Buteo regalis, loggerhead shrike Lanius ludovicianus, merlin Falco columbarius, Brewers sparrow Spizella breweri and grasshopper sparrow Ammodramus savannarum.
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