carboniferous period

1. 1.

   from 345 million to 280 million years ago

   SynonymsCarboniferous

   Broaderperiod

   Part ofPaleozoic

   PartsPennsylvanianMississippian

Questions about carboniferous period

What does carboniferous period mean?

carboniferous period means "from 345 million to 280 million years ago".

What is another word for carboniferous period?

Close synonyms include Carboniferous. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is carboniferous period a common word?

carboniferous period is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.