Carboniferous

See also: carboniferous

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌkɑːbəˈnɪfəɹəs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Homophone: carboniferous
• Rhymes: -ɪfəɹəs

Adjective

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.
   • 2017 August 9, Mark Carnall, “Why do cephalopods produce ink? And what's ink made of, anyway?”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     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).

Translations

relating to the geologic period

• Catalan: carbonífer
• 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

the Carboniferous

1. (geology) The Carboniferous period.

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