Usually means: Period of extensive coal formation.
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  1. Carboniferous, carboniferous: Merriam-Webster
  2. Carboniferous, the Carboniferous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Carboniferous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. carboniferous, the Carboniferous: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Carboniferous, carboniferous: Vocabulary.com
  6. Carboniferous, carboniferous: Wordnik
  7. Carboniferous, carboniferous: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Carboniferous, carboniferous: Wiktionary
  9. carboniferous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. Carboniferous, carboniferous: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. Carboniferous: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Carboniferous: Dictionary.com
  13. Carboniferous: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Carboniferous (album), Carboniferous: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Carboniferous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. carboniferous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. Carboniferous: Rhymezone
  18. Carboniferous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. carboniferous: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. carboniferous: FreeDictionary.org
  21. carboniferous: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. carboniferous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Carboniferous, the Carboniferous: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. carboniferous: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Carboniferous, the Carboniferous: Encyclopedia

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Tree of Life Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Carboniferous: USGS Paleontology Glossary of Terms

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adjective:  (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.
noun:  (geology) the Carboniferous period
adjective:  (chemistry) Containing or producing carbon.

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