auriferous

American  

[aw-rif-er-uhs] / ɔˈrɪf ər əs /

adjective

1. yielding or containing gold.

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auriferous British  

/ ɔːˈrɪfərəs /

adjective

1. (of rock) containing gold; gold-bearing

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Other Word Forms

• nonauriferous adjective

Etymology

Origin of auriferous

1720–30; < Latin aurifer gold-bearing ( auri- ¹, -fer ) + -ous

Example Sentences

Gold, of course, is the international color of bling, the Midas touch, gilded and auriferous.

From Forbes • Aug. 21, 2013

Adventurers of every sort and condition, of all ages and both sexes, from every clime and country, had there congregated at these wondrous auriferous centres.

From Nevermore by Bolderwood, Rolf

Indeed, a man unaccustomed to the bush usually finds it astonishingly difficult even to see one, and provisions were worth a ransom in the auriferous wilderness into which they were pushing their way.

From Delilah of the Snows by Bindloss, Harold

And, finally, experts declare that some of the rich banket beds of the Transvaal became auriferous by the infiltration of water containing a minute proportion of gold in solution.

From The Romance of Industry and Invention by Cochrane, Robert

Does the auriferous quartz occur in veins, and are these still in situ, or are they broken up?

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von