aurĭfer, fĕra, fĕrum, adj. [aurum-fero], bearing, producing, or containing gold, goldbearing (poet. or in post-Aug. prose): amnis, i. e. Pactolus, * Tib. 3, 3, 29: arva, i. e. Spain, Sil. 16, 25: regio, Flor 4, 12, 60: harenae, Plin. 4, 22, 35, § 115: nemus, id. 5, 1, 1, § 4: arbor, i. e. bearing golden apples (in the garden of the Hesperides), Cic. Tusc. 2, 9, 22; Sil. 4, 639.