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anthraciferous

anthraciferous adjective: yielding anthracite.

Adjective

anthraciferous (comparative more anthraciferous, superlative most anthraciferous)

  1. Yielding anthracite.
    • anthraciferous sandstone
    • anthraciferous strata

Forms of anthraciferous

comparativemore anthraciferous
superlativemost anthraciferous

Origin of anthraciferous

From anthracite + -iferous.

Words that rhyme with anthraciferous

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Questions about anthraciferous

What does anthraciferous mean?
Anthraciferous means yielding anthracite.
What part of speech is anthraciferous?
Anthraciferous is an adjective.

Words near anthraciferous in the dictionary

  1. anthracenes
  2. anthracenyl
  3. anthracenyls
  4. anthrachelin
  5. anthracic
  6. anthraciferous
  7. anthracin
  8. anthracite
  9. anthracites
  10. anthracitic
  11. anthracitism

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