MISSIPPIAN PERIOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Missippian period mean? 

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

1. from 345 million to 310 million years ago; increase of land areas; primitive ammonites; winged insects

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MISSIPPIAN PERIOD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

From 345 million to 310 million years ago; increase of land areas; primitive ammonites; winged insects

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Lower Carboniferous; Lower Carboniferous period; Missippian period; Mississippian

Instance hypernyms:

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

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

Carboniferous; Carboniferous period (from 345 million to 280 million years ago)