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carboniferous

Car·bon·if·er·ous
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [kahr-buh-nif-er-uh s]
    • /ˌkɑr bəˈnɪf ər əs/
    • /ˌkɑː.bəˈnɪf.ər.əs/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [kahr-buh-nif-er-uh s]
    • /ˌkɑr bəˈnɪf ər əs/

Definitions of carboniferous word

  • adjective carboniferous yielding coal or carbon 3
  • adjective carboniferous of, denoting, or formed in the fifth period of the Palaeozoic era, between the Devonian and Permian periods, lasting for nearly 64 million years during which coal measures were formed 3
  • adjective carboniferous producing or containing carbon or coal 3
  • adjective carboniferous designating or of the fifth geologic period of the Paleozoic Era, subdivided into the Pennsylvanian (the Upper Carboniferous) and the Mississippian (the Lower Carboniferous) and characterized by warm, moist climate and vast swamps which eventually formed into extensive coal deposits 3
  • adjective carboniferous noting or pertaining to a period of the Paleozoic Era, including the Pennsylvanian and Mississippian periods as epochs, occurring from 345 million to 280 million years ago. 1
  • adjective carboniferous (lowercase) producing carbon or coal. 1
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Origin of carboniferous

First appearance:

before 1790
One of the 43% newest English words
1790-1800; < Latin carbōn- (stem of carbō) coal + -i- + -ferous

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    any extinct treelike plant of the genus Calamites, of Carboniferous times, related to the horsetails

  • coal measures

    a series of coal-bearing rocks formed in the upper Carboniferous period; the uppermost series of the Carboniferous system

  • cotylosaur

    any of various members of the extinct order of primitive and massive reptiles known as Cotylosauria, which lived between the Carboniferous and Triassic ages

  • glacial epoch

    Also called glacial period, ice age. the geologically recent Pleistocene Epoch, during which much of the Northern Hemisphere was covered by great ice sheets.

  • mississippian

    of or relating to the state of Mississippi or the Mississippi River.
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