Usually means: Containing or yielding gold.
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  1. auriferous: Merriam-Webster
  2. auriferous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. auriferous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. auriferous: Collins English Dictionary
  5. auriferous: Vocabulary.com
  6. auriferous: Wordnik
  7. auriferous: Wiktionary
  8. auriferous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. auriferous: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. auriferous: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Auriferous, auriferous: Dictionary.com
  12. Auriferous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. auriferous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. auriferous: Rhymezone
  15. Auriferous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. auriferous: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. auriferous: FreeDictionary.org
  18. auriferous: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. auriferous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. auriferous: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. auriferous: Merriam-Webster

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Definitions from Wiktionary (auriferous)

▸ adjective:  Containing or producing gold; gold-bearing.

Similar:
gold-bearing, metallic, metal, aurigerous, aurous, golden, argentous, Aurelian, chrysopoeian, palladiferous, more...

Opposite:
nonauriferous

Types:
gold, platinum, titanium, copper, silver, more...

Phrases:
auriferous pyrites, more...

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Similar:
gold-bearing, metallic, metal, aurigerous, aurous, golden, argentous, Aurelian, chrysopoeian, palladiferous, more...

Opposite:
nonauriferous

Types:
gold, platinum, titanium, copper, silver, more...

Phrases:
auriferous pyrites, more...



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