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orefield

orefield noun: land from which ore is mined.

Noun

orefield (plural orefields)

  1. Land from which ore is mined.
    • The balance is home-produced and is railborne from inland orefields. The home orefields serving South Wales are situated at Banbury and at Irthlingborough, on the ex-L.N.W.R. Northampton-Peterborough branch.1961 August, “New traffic flows in South Wales”, in Trains Illustrated, page 493
    • The Midlands Basin orefield in Ireland contains several large zinc-lead(-barium) ore deposits formed from moderate temperature fluids generated by deep crustal circulation of seawater-derived brines during continental rifting ( 15, 16 ).2009 February 6, Jamie J. Wilkinson et al., “Anomalously Metal-Rich Fluids Form Hydrothermal Ore Deposits”, in Science, volume 323, number 5915, →DOI, pages 764–767

Proper noun capitalized: Orefield

Orefield

  1. An unincorporated community in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, United States.

Forms of orefield

pluralorefields

Origin of orefield

From ore + field.

Questions about orefield

What does orefield mean?
Orefield means land from which ore is mined.
What part of speech is orefield?
Orefield can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of orefield?
The plural of orefield is orefields.

Words near orefield in the dictionary

  1. orectolobids
  2. oreddy
  3. oredelf
  4. Oredezh
  5. Oree
  6. orefield
  7. orefields
  8. oreforming
  9. Oreg
  10. oreganillo
  11. oregano

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