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Word: carboniferous (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Adjective:

  • Containing or producing carbon
  • geology of a geologic period within the Paleozoic era; comprises the lower, middle and upper Mississippian and lower, middle and upper Pennsylvanian epochs from about 345 to 280 million years ago, when coal was laid down

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Noun:

  • geology the Carboniferous period

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