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What does Carboniferous mean?

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Adjective
  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
Proper noun
  1. (geology) the Carboniferous period
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