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# carboniferous

«carboniferous» in Mova's school dictionary: **The Carboniferous was a time in Earth's history, about…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (Carboniferous, carboniferous); noun (the Carboniferous)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The Carboniferous was a time in Earth's history, about 359 to 299 million years ago, when huge swamp forests grew and later turned into coal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carboniferous/#m1)

2) Containing or producing coal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carboniferous/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science and history-of-Earth lessons, the Carboniferous had giant insects, like dragonflies as big as seagulls, and forests of giant ferns. Coal mined in Britain and elsewhere formed from Carboniferous plants.

### examples

- Coal formed from plants in the Carboniferous. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carboniferous/#x1)
- Giant dragonflies lived in the Carboniferous period. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carboniferous/#x2)
- The Carboniferous was before the dinosaurs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carboniferous/#x3)
- These carboniferous rocks contain coal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carboniferous/#x4)
- Forests of tree ferns grew in the Carboniferous. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carboniferous/#x5)
- Amphibians were common in the Carboniferous. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carboniferous/#x6)

### note

As the name of a period, use a capital C. «Carbon-iferous» means «coal-bearing». It was long before the dinosaurs.

### In the corpora

- [Coal is squashed swamp forest, mostly from the Carboniferous period, about 360-300 million years ago.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/59-coal-oil-and-gas/2/)
- [Coal formed mostly from swamp forests of the Carboniferous period, about 360-300 million years ago.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/59-coal-oil-and-gas/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «carboniferous» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carboniferous/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.