Monday Word: Ferruginous

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ferruginous

adjective

[fuh-roo-juh-nuhs]

1. geology iron-bearing

2. of the color of iron rust

origin
1655–65; < Latin ferrūginus rust-colored, derivative of ferrūgin-, stem of ferrūgō iron-rust, derivative of ferrum iron; -ous

examples

1. A concretion of rounded quartz pebbles, cemented by ferruginous matter, apparently of recent formation.

Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia] [Volume 2 of 2]
Performed between the years 1818 and 1822

2. He taught him how to clean letterpress and engravings from ferruginous, fungous, and other kinds of spots.

The Home of the Blizzard by Douglas Mawson

3. From nose to tail it measures about eighteen inches, and its general colour is a pale ferruginous brown, mixed with gray.

The Desert. From the French of Arthur Mangin. 1869.

Binary Mandala by David Lobdell, cast iron & steel