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What does ferruginous mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word ferruginous? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Containing iron.
  2. Rusty.
  3. Rust-coloured.
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My visit to the Laundry pond yielded only a few birds, a single little egret, a coot, a pair of little grebes, several ferruginous ducks and a small flock of mallards.
The beige-to-ochre tropical ferruginous soil displays in its first horizons a sandy texture at slope bottom, and is sandy-clayey on the remainder.
At the laundry pond in addition to the usual species I saw another new species, a group of three ferruginous ducks.
A mixture of bruised arum leaves and stalks with a quantity of dark, ferruginous earth and water was put into the gourd.
The latter, a series of ferruginous shelly sands, are the only preserved in situ product of the late Miocene-early Pliocene marine transgression.
It contained fragments of earth of a ferruginous color, and emitting a sulphureous smell.

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