crystalliferous
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of crystalliferous
First recorded in 1880–85; crystalli- + -ferous
Example Sentences
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Thus the azoic group is crystalliferous, or crystal-bearing.
From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Hitchcock, Edward
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