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carboniferous

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Adjective, Noun

HYPHEN

Car=bon=if=er=ous

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun carboniferous has 1 sense

carboniferous(n = noun.time) carboniferous period - from 345 million to 280 million years ago; Array

is a part of paleozoic, paleozoic era

has parts: pennsylvanian, pennsylvanian period, upper carboniferous, upper carboniferous period, lower carboniferous, lower carboniferous period, missippian period, mississippian

is a kind of geological period, period

Derived form adjective carboniferous₁

Adjective carboniferous has 2 senses

carboniferous(a = adj.pert) Array - of or relating to the Carboniferous geologic era; "carboniferous rock system"

Derived form noun

carboniferous₁

carboniferous(a = adj.pert) carbonaceous, carbonic, carbonous - relating to or consisting of or yielding carbon; Array

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CIDE DICTIONARY

carboniferous, a. [Carbon + -ferous.].

Producing or containing carbon or coal. [1913 Webster]

Carboniferous age (Geol.), the age immediately following the Devonian, or Age of fishes, and characterized by the vegetation which formed the coal beds. This age embraces three periods, the Subcarboniferous, the Carboniferous, and Permian. See Age of acrogens, under Acrogen. -- Carboniferous formation (Geol.), the series of rocks (including sandstones, shales, limestones, and conglomerates, with beds of coal) which make up the strata of the Carboniferous age or Carboniferous period. See the Diagram under Geology.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

carboniferous, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 producing coal.
2 (Carboniferous) Geol. of or relating to the fifth period in the Palaeozoic era, with evidence of the first reptiles and extensive coal-forming swamp forests.

Usage

Cf. Appendix II.
--n. (Carboniferous) Geol. this period or system.

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