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non-auriferous en · ADJ

Etymology

From non- + auriferous.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not gold-bearing.
    • The geologists to the expedition, however, so far as I am aware, report the country as being distinctly unpromising and definitely non-auriferous. 1931, Ion L. Idriess, Lasseter's Last Ride, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 231: