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placentary | placentation | placentiferous | placentiform | placentious | placer | placer miner | placer mining | placeseeker | placet | placid

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placer

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Noun

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plac=er

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun placer has 1 sense

placer(n = noun.object) Array - an alluvial deposit that contains particles of some valuable mineral; Array

alluvial deposit

alluvial sediment

CIDE DICTIONARY

placer, n.

One who places or sets. Spenser. [1913 Webster]

placer, n. [Sp.].

A deposit of earth, sand, or gravel, containing valuable mineral in particles, especially by the side of a river, or in the bed of a mountain torrent. [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

placer, n. a deposit of sand, gravel, etc., in the bed of a stream etc., containing valuable minerals in particles.

Etymology

Amer. Sp., rel. to placel sandbank f. plaza PLACE

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