Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Containing lead.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Producing lead.
- Containing lead: applied, in ceramics, to a glaze in which one of the principal ingredients is lead. See
lead-glaze .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Producing or containing lead.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Producing or containing
lead .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Latin plumbum, lead + –ferous.]
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From Latin plumbum, lead + -ferous.
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Examples
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Greeks, the Egyptians, the Etruscans, and the Romans -- should have manufactured plumbiferous bronzes, while the Phnicians carried to the people of the North only pure bronzes without the alloy of lead.
Atlantis : the antediluvian world Ignatius Donnelly 1866
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a plumbiferous, or lead glaze; or a stanniferous, or tin glaze, we do not know.
The Story of Porcelain Sara Ware Bassett 1920
reesetee commented on the word plumbiferous
Yielding or containing lead.
November 19, 2007