Carboniferous

See also: carboniferous

English

Etymology

From carboniferous (“producing carbon”), from carbon +‎ -i- +‎ -ferous.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌkɑːbəˈnɪfəɹəs/
• Homophone: carboniferous
• Rhymes: -ɪfəɹəs

Adjective

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Carboniferous

Wikipedia

Carboniferous (not comparable)

1. (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.

Translations

relating to the geologic period

Dutch: carbonisch Finnish: hiilikautinen, kivihiilikautinen French: carbonifère (fr) German: karbonisch Greek: λιθανθρακοφόρος (el) m or f (lithanthrakofóros) Polish: karboński (pl) Portuguese: carbonífero, carbónico (pt) (Portugal), carbônico (Brazil) Russian: каменноу́гольный (ru) (kamennoúgolʹnyj) Spanish: carbonífero (es)

Proper noun

Carboniferous

1. (geology) the Carboniferous period
   • 2017 August 9, Mark Carnall, “Why do cephalopods produce ink? And what's ink made of, anyway?”, in The Guardian‎:

     The earliest ink sacs appear in the fossil record in the Carboniferous period around 330 million years ago in cephalopods such as Donovaniconus, Gordoniconus and Saundersites which show a mix of features from older and more modern groups and are placed in their own order, Donovaniconida (Doguzhaeva 2012).

Derived terms

• Permo-Carboniferous

Translations

the geologic period

Chinese: Mandarin: 石炭紀 / 石炭纪 (zh) (Shítànjì) Czech: karbon m Dutch: carboon (nl) n Estonian: karbon, kivisöeajastu Finnish: hiilikausi (fi), kivihiilikausi (fi) French: Carbonifère (fr) m German: Karbon (de) n Greek: Λιθανθρακοφόρος f (Lithanthrakofóros) Hungarian: karbon (hu) Japanese: 石炭紀 (ja) (Sekitan-ki) Latin: Carboniferum n Mongolian: Cyrillic: Карбоны галав (Karbony galav), Чулуун нүүрсний галав (Čuluun nüürsnii galav) Polish: karbon (pl) m inan Russian: каменноу́гольный пери́од m (kamennoúgolʹnyj períod) Spanish: carbonífero (es) m Swedish: karbon (sv) c, stenkolsperioden c Vietnamese: kỉ Các-bon, kỉ Than Đá

See also

• Appendix:Geologic timescale