LOWER CARBONIFEROUS PERIOD

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

Lower Carboniferous; Lower Carboniferous period; Missippian period; Mississippian

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Instance hypernyms:

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

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

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

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