Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Containing or producing pyrites.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Min.) Containing or producing pyrites.

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  • adjective containing, or yielding pyrites

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Examples

  • I could not but remark that the interior, which appeared pyritiferous, did not show the slightest trace of precious metal.

    The Land of Midian 2003

  • I could not but remark that the interior, which appeared pyritiferous, did not show the slightest trace of precious metal.

    The Land of Midian — Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855

  • Basement consisted of a short section of graphitic pelite, followed by a pyritiferous psammo-pelite.

    unknown title 2011

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