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asbestiferous

asbestiferous adjective: containing asbestos.

Adjective

asbestiferous (comparative more asbestiferous, superlative most asbestiferous)

  1. Containing asbestos.
    • All the serpentine of this district is remarkable, as being entirely free from diallage, but is very asbestiferous.1851, Journal of the Geological Society of Dublin, volume IV, Dublin: Samuel B. Oldham, page 170
    • The largest known deposits of asbestiferous rock in Venezuela are located are located some six miles west of the town of Tinaquillo, in the State of Cojedes.[…]The Caribbean, Caracas, and Villa de Cura series contain outcrops of asbestiferous serpentines, but the only large and perhaps economically...1947, The Mining Magazine, pages 76, 77, 80

Forms of asbestiferous

comparativemore asbestiferous
superlativemost asbestiferous

Origin of asbestiferous

From asbestos + -iferous.

Questions about asbestiferous

What does asbestiferous mean?
Asbestiferous means containing asbestos.
What part of speech is asbestiferous?
Asbestiferous is an adjective.

Words near asbestiferous in the dictionary

  1. Asberry
  2. Asberrys
  3. asbest
  4. asbesti
  5. asbestic
  6. asbestiferous
  7. asbestification
  8. asbestified
  9. asbestifies
  10. asbestiform
  11. asbestiforms

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