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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[L.

aurifer

;

aurum

gold +

ferre

to bear: cf. F.

aurifère

Gold-bearing; containing or producing gold.

Whence many a bursting stream

auriferous

plays.

Thomson.

Auriferous pyrites

iron pyrites (iron disulphide), containing some gold disseminated through it.

Adj.

[L. aurifer, from aurum, gold, and fero, to produce.]

That yields or produces gold; as auriferous sands or streams.