Usually means: Containing or derived from iron.
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  1. ferrous: Merriam-Webster
  2. ferrous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ferrous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ferrous: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ferrous: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ferrous, ferrous: Wordnik
  7. ferrous: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ferrous: Wiktionary
  9. ferrous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ferrous: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ferrous: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. ferrous: Dictionary.com
  13. ferrous: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Ferrous (film), Ferrous: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Ferrous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. ferrous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. ferrous: Rhymezone
  18. Ferrous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. ferrous: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  20. ferrous: FreeDictionary.org
  21. ferrous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. ferrous: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. ferrous: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. ferrous: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

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  1. ferrous: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. ferrous: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  5. ferrous: Medical dictionary

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  1. ferrous: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. ferrous: Electronics
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  4. FERROUS: Power Engineering

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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adjective:  Of or containing iron.
adjective:  (chemistry) Of compounds of iron in which it has a valence or oxidation number of 2.
adjective:  Of an element: iron, or in certain ways similar to iron: ferrous metals.

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