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Ferruginous   Listen
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Ferruginous  adj.  
1.
Partaking of iron; containing particles of iron.
2.
Resembling iron rust in appearance or color; brownish red, or yellowish red.





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"Ferruginous" Quotes from Famous Books



... and tail, but on the secondaries these become elongated, and tear-like in form. On the remiges the markings are quite regularly hexagonal in shape; and on the upper coverts of the tail and on the rectrices they are accompanied with numerous ferruginous blotches, some of which are irregularly scattered over the whole surface of the vane, while others, marked in the center with a blackish spot, are disposed in series along the shaft and resemble ocelli. This similitude of marking between the rectrices and subcaudals renders the ...
— Scientific American Supplement No. 360, November 25, 1882 • Various
... picturesque site, and commands no interesting scenery. The farm consists of about 170 acres, which, in England, is regarded as a rather small holding. The land is naturally sterile and hard of cultivation, most of it apparently being heavily mixed with ferruginous matter. When ploughed deeply, the clods turned up look frequently like compact masses of iron ore. Every experienced farmer knows the natural poverty of such a soil, and the hard labor to man and beast it costs to ...
— A Walk from London to John O'Groat's • Elihu Burritt
... cases the ferruginous preparations are of advantage. Cod-liver oil is often a remedy of great value, and is especially useful in strumous and debilitated subjects. Calx sulphurata in pill form, one-tenth to one-fourth grain four or five times daily, is said, acts well in the pustular variety. In some instances, ...
— Essentials of Diseases of the Skin • Henry Weightman Stelwagon
... 1783 was amazing and portentous and full of horrible phenomena, according to White, with a peculiar haze or smoky fog prevailing for many weeks. 'The sun at noon looked as blank as a clouded moon, and shed a rust-coloured ferruginous light on the ground and floors of rooms.' This was succeeded by a very severe winter, the thermometer on December 10 being 1 deg. below zero; ...
— A Short History of English Agriculture • W. H. R. Curtler
... aqueous solutions of ferrocyanide of potassium or other salts, which formed an indelible compound with the ferruginous base ...
— Forty Centuries of Ink • David N. Carvalho


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