MEANING
1. Containing iron or iron-bearing compounds.
2. Having a rusty reddish-brown color.
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Words that belong together
- ferruginous deposits
- ferruginous sandstone
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Ferruginous deposits lined the spring’s channel.
The cliff included a layer of ferruginous sandstone.
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- ferruginous
Usage notes
Primary category: environment. Forms: Normally non-gradable as a composition description; degree comparisons may describe color. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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