Ferruginous

[fe'ru:dʒinәs]

(a.) Partaking of iron; containing particles of iron.

(a.) Resembling iron rust in appearance or color; brownish red, or yellowish red.

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adj. of the colour of iron-rust impregnated with iron.—n. Ferru′go a disease of plants commonly called rust.

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Sir Leicester receives that ferruginous person graciously. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.

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