"furruginous" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Presumably originally a misspelling of ferruginous, that remained either in error or in minority, mainly technical, use from about early 19th century to mid-20th century.",
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    {
      "form": "more furruginous",
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    },
    {
      "form": "most furruginous",
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  "pos": "adj",
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    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "containing iron",
          "word": "ferruginous"
        }
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        {
          "text": "1804 Antoine François comte de Fourcroy: A general system of chemical knowledge\nThe quartzose iron is somewhat difficult of treatment, nevertheless it does not resist the long-continued action of acids any more than furruginous sands and the different species of ochres."
        },
        {
          "text": "1804 Anthony Florian Madinger Willich: The Domestic Encyclopaedia; Or, A Dictionary of Facts\nThe natural coral seems to receive its colour from iron, as spirit of vitriol acquires from it a furruginous taste; and on calcination, some particles are discoverable among the ashes, that are attracted by the magnet."
        },
        {
          "text": "1839 John Beck: Beck's, late Fairfax's, Leamington guide\nIn advancing nearer the surface, the fluid thus impregnated meets with a stratum of porus iron-stone, which is combined with the silica, and which, in digging Mr. Smart's well, has been found to exist under the town; and hence the furruginous bi-silicate."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1907 Ernest F. Burchard: Illinois State Geological Survey — Yearbook for 1907",
          "text": "There are a few ledges of partly consolidated gravel conglomerate, and locally near the base of the cut is 4 to 6 feet of sand that has been indurated by a dark furruginous cement, forming a sandstone."
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          "extra": "rust-coloured",
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        {
          "text": "1823 William Scoresby: Journal of a Voyage to the Northern Whale-fishery\nThe caterpillar feeds on the Kola; it is grey, with alternate rows of white and furruginous spines; the pupa yellowish, variegated with black."
        }
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  "word": "furruginous"
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  "etymology_text": "Presumably originally a misspelling of ferruginous, that remained either in error or in minority, mainly technical, use from about early 19th century to mid-20th century.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more furruginous",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
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    },
    {
      "form": "most furruginous",
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  "pos": "adj",
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      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "containing iron",
          "word": "ferruginous"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1804 Antoine François comte de Fourcroy: A general system of chemical knowledge\nThe quartzose iron is somewhat difficult of treatment, nevertheless it does not resist the long-continued action of acids any more than furruginous sands and the different species of ochres."
        },
        {
          "text": "1804 Anthony Florian Madinger Willich: The Domestic Encyclopaedia; Or, A Dictionary of Facts\nThe natural coral seems to receive its colour from iron, as spirit of vitriol acquires from it a furruginous taste; and on calcination, some particles are discoverable among the ashes, that are attracted by the magnet."
        },
        {
          "text": "1839 John Beck: Beck's, late Fairfax's, Leamington guide\nIn advancing nearer the surface, the fluid thus impregnated meets with a stratum of porus iron-stone, which is combined with the silica, and which, in digging Mr. Smart's well, has been found to exist under the town; and hence the furruginous bi-silicate."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1907 Ernest F. Burchard: Illinois State Geological Survey — Yearbook for 1907",
          "text": "There are a few ledges of partly consolidated gravel conglomerate, and locally near the base of the cut is 4 to 6 feet of sand that has been indurated by a dark furruginous cement, forming a sandstone."
        }
      ],
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        {
          "text": "1823 William Scoresby: Journal of a Voyage to the Northern Whale-fishery\nThe caterpillar feeds on the Kola; it is grey, with alternate rows of white and furruginous spines; the pupa yellowish, variegated with black."
        }
      ],
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  "word": "furruginous"
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