UPPER CARBONIFEROUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Upper Carboniferous mean? 

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

1. from 310 million to 280 million years ago; warm climate; swampy land

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• UPPER CARBONIFEROUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

From 310 million to 280 million years ago; warm climate; swampy land

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Pennsylvanian; Pennsylvanian period; Upper Carboniferous; Upper Carboniferous period

Instance hypernyms:

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

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

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