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LOWER CARBONIFEROUS PERIOD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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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