Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun carboniferous_period

1 sense of carboniferous period

Sense 1
Carboniferous, Carboniferous period -- (from 345 million to 280 million years ago)
       INSTANCE OF=> period, geological period -- (a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed; "ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods")