"argentiferous" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1854, Carl Friedrich Plattner, Sheridan Muspratt, The Use of the Blowpipe in the Qualitative and Quantitative Examination of Minerals, Ores, Furnace Products, and Other Metallic Combinations",
          "text": "To these [compounds] belong native gold, alloys of gold and silver, and the argentiferous gold, or auriferous silver, obtained from the assayings of auriferous minerals and ores.",
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          "text": "Where’s the argentiferous wind-jammer of Nebraska whose fervescent oratory knocked the Chicago Convention head over heels? What’s become of the tridentiferous statesman from Carolina? Can it be possible that silver is to be trodden down by the feet and claws of gold-bugs, flattened by the Kanchulla of money-devils or swallowed by the squamigerous hydra of Wall Street?",
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        "(geology) Containing or producing silver."
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          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "containing or producing silver",
          "word": "argentífer"
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          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "containing or producing silver",
          "word": "argentifère"
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          "lang": "Ido",
          "sense": "containing or producing silver",
          "word": "arjentoza"
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          "sense": "containing or producing silver",
          "word": "argentifero"
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          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "containing or producing silver",
          "word": "argentífero"
        },
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          "code": "es",
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          "sense": "containing or producing silver",
          "word": "argentífero"
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      "rhymes": "-ɪfəɹəs"
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  "word": "argentiferous"
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      "code": "ca",
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      "sense": "containing or producing silver",
      "word": "argentífer"
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      "sense": "containing or producing silver",
      "word": "argentifère"
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    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "containing or producing silver",
      "word": "arjentoza"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "containing or producing silver",
      "word": "argentifero"
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      "sense": "containing or producing silver",
      "word": "argentífero"
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      "sense": "containing or producing silver",
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