CARBONIFEROUS PERIOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Carboniferous period mean? 

• CARBONIFEROUS PERIOD (noun)
  The noun CARBONIFEROUS PERIOD has 1 sense:

1. from 345 million to 280 million years ago

  Familiarity information: CARBONIFEROUS PERIOD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARBONIFEROUS PERIOD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

From 345 million to 280 million years ago

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Carboniferous; Carboniferous period

Instance hypernyms:

geological period; period (a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed)

Meronyms (parts of "Carboniferous period"):

Pennsylvanian; Pennsylvanian period; Upper Carboniferous; Upper Carboniferous period (from 310 million to 280 million years ago; warm climate; swampy land)

Lower Carboniferous; Lower Carboniferous period; Missippian period; Mississippian (from 345 million to 310 million years ago; increase of land areas; primitive ammonites; winged insects)

Holonyms ("Carboniferous period" is a part of...):

Paleozoic; Paleozoic era (from 544 million to about 230 million years ago)