CARBONIFEROUS


Meaning of CARBONIFEROUS in English

[car.bon.if.er.ous] adj (1799) 1: producing or containing carbon or coal

2. cap: of, relating to, or being the period of the Paleozoic era between the Devonian and the Permian or the corresponding system of rocks that includes coal beds--see geologic time table -- Carboniferous n

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