'bauxite-abundant' originates from modern English, specifically the words 'bauxite' (from French 'bauxite') and 'abundant' (from Latin 'abundans'), where 'bauxite' referred to the aluminium ore named after Les Baux and 'abundans' meant 'overflowing' or 'plentiful'.

'bauxite-abundant' combines the 19th-century loanword 'bauxite' (borrowed into English from French 'bauxite', named after the district 'Les Baux' in Provence) with 'abundant', which passed from Latin 'abundans' through Old French 'abondant' into Middle English 'abundant', producing the modern compound form.

Initially, 'bauxite' denoted a specific ore named for a place and 'abundant' originally meant 'overflowing'; over time their senses stabilized to 'the aluminium ore' and 'plentiful', and the compound came to mean 'having plentiful bauxite deposits'.