a. [f. as prec. + -FEROUS.] Yielding copper.
1784. Kirwan, Min. (1796), II. 109. Cupriferous native silver.
c. 1830. De la Beche, Elem. Geol. (L.). The whole cupriferous district of North Wales.
1879. Cassell’s Techn. Educ., IV. 225/1. Arsenical or cupriferous pyrites.
