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ferriferous
"Producing or yielding iron; containing iron compounds or ore", Late 18th cent.; earliest use found in Richard Kirwan (1733–1812), chemist and mineralogist. From
ferri-
+
-ferous
, originally rendering Swedish
järnhaltig
.