ferrugiferous

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English[edit]

From Latin ferrugo (“rust”) + -iferous.

ferrugiferous (comparative more ferrugiferous, superlative most ferrugiferous)

Bearing or producing rust or iron oxides
- 1865, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume 31, page 709:
  Boulders of ferrugiferous stone cropped out at intervals ...