ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Fossiliferous

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Fossiliferous is an adjective meaning Containing fossils.

Meaning

Containing fossils.

Example Sentences

The area contains a great thickness of well exposed fossiliferous, marine strata of uppermost Cretaceous and Eocene age, and it is felt that the most continuous and complete section may be found here.
Having already described him [the whale] in most of his present habitatory and anatomical peculiarities, it now remains to magnify him in an archæological, fossiliferous, and antediluvian point of view.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sparsely, carboniferous, fossiled, semifossilized, semifossil, fucoidal.

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