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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Containing selenium.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Containing selenium; yielding selenium: as, seleniferous ores.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Containing, or impregnated with, selenium.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective chemistry containing, or yielding
selenium
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Furthermore, garlic is a seleniferous plant, accumulating selenium from the soil against a concentration gradient.
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