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Placer   /plˈæsər/  /plˈeɪsər/   Listen
Placer

noun
1.
An alluvial deposit that contains particles of some valuable mineral.



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placer miner
placer mining


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"Placer" Quotes from Famous Books



... is much, the same. The moths emerge, dry their wings, and reach full development the first day. In freedom, the females being weighted with eggs seldom attempt to fly. They remain where they are, thrust out the egg placer from the last ring of the abdomen and wait. By ten o'clock the males, in such numbers as to amaze a watcher, find them and remain until almost morning. Broad antennae, slenderer abdomen, and the claspers used in holding the female in mating, smaller wings and more brilliant markings are ...
— Moths of the Limberlost • Gene Stratton-Porter
... industrial activity prevails there. The inhabitants weave fine straw hats from the fibre of the leaf of the buri palm-tree (corypha sp.), manufacture pandanus mats, and carry on a profitable trade at Mauban with the placer miners of North Camarines. The entire breadth of the road is covered with cement, and along its center flows, in an open channel, ...
— The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes • Fedor Jagor; Tomas de Comyn; Chas. Wilkes; Rudolf Virchow.


Words linked to "Placer" :   alluvium, alluvion, alluvial sediment, placer miner, placer mining, alluvial deposit


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