argentiferous

1. 1.

   containing or yielding silver

   “argentiferous ore”

   Similarmetallic

Questions about argentiferous

What does argentiferous mean?

argentiferous means "containing or yielding silver".

How many syllables are in argentiferous?

argentiferous has 5 syllables and divides as ar-gen-ti-fe-rous under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is argentiferous a common word?

argentiferous is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.