† niccoliferousadj.
Obsolete.
= nickeliferous adj.
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1820 London Jrnl. Arts & Sci. 1 227 A sword blade hammered out of a slice of nicoliferous iron.
1868 J. D. Dana Syst. Mineral. (ed. 5) 59 The niccoliferous Pyrrhotite is the one that affords most of the nickel of commerce.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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