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Aug. 21, 2016
auriferous\aw-RIF-er-uh s\adjective
1. yielding or containing gold.
QuotesOf the mineral products by far the most important is gold, and it
may be conceded that this is a highly auriferous region.
-- Richard Austin Freeman, Travels and Life in Ashanti and Jaman, 1898
Origin of auriferousAuriferous derives from the Latin word for
"gold," aurum. It entered English in the mid-1700s.More From
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