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Meaning of "ferruginous"

Ferruginous means containing or resembling iron, often used to describe a reddish-brown color or mineral rich in iron
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  • Containing iron.
  • rusty.
  • rust-colored.

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Ferruginous water is mineral water rich in iron.
The name is a combination of ferruginous and concrete.
Ferruginous hawks are susceptible to disturbance by human activities.
Micrograph of asbestosis with prominent ferruginous bodies.
Ferruginous hawks are rarely used in falconry.
There is also an interrupted ferruginous terminal line.
The head is ferruginous to ochreous with a whitish collar.
Its head and thorax are bright ferruginous.
There are four dull ferruginous subapical costal dashes.
The costal area is pale orange ferruginous.
There is a large ferruginous spot at the end of the cell.
This land was expected to give us ferruginous water.
It has a broad ferruginous breast bar above a white belly.
The ground colour of the forewings is ferruginous cream.
The head is ferruginous to orange.

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The legs also vary from black to ferruginous.
Palpus bright ferruginous red with a yellowish upper edge.
The remaining areas are suffused with ferruginous.
Red ferruginous clay and sand on a fissured limestone shelf.
The forewings are bright shining ferruginous.
Population dynamics of the ferruginous hawk during a prey decline.
The ground colour of the females is brown ferruginous.
Integrate the needs of ferruginous hawks into other grassland initiatives.
The markings are light ferruginous.
Palpi ferruginous brown.
These are distinctly suffused with pale ferruginous between them.
Grey ferruginous soil.
The upperside is uniform brown and the underside is ferruginous.
Ferruginous stain remover.
The hindwings are pale ferruginous.
The antennae are ferruginous and the eyes are ovate shape resembling an egg.
The thorax is bright ferruginous.
Integrate the needs of ferruginous hawk conservation into other rangeland conservation programs.
The terminal edge is slenderly suffused with ferruginous brown.
The forewings are shining ferruginous with the costal border snow white.
The markings are bright ferruginous.
There are two bright ferruginous patches on the costa with white inner edges.
It was formerly considered conspecific with the very similar ferruginous antbird.
The red ferruginous soil in the hill area and the alluvium in the valley.
Population trends of ferruginous ments.
A ferruginous body is a histopathologic finding in interstitial lung disease suggestive of significant asbestos exposure asbestosis.
New growth is ferruginous.
The Ferruginous hawk occurs in two colour phases.
The periostracum is thin and covered with a thick ferruginous deposit.
Disturbances that affect ferruginous hawks most often occur near the nest site.
The distal half of the wing is suffused with brownish ferruginous.
Recent successful nesting of ferruginous hawks in Manitoba.
The discal stigmata is represented by narrow elongate very oblique deep ferruginous spots.
A soaring Ferruginous hawk circles a prairie dog colony.
In places the sandstone may be conglomeratic or ferruginous rich in iron oxides.

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