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fossiliferous

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13 lettersPart of speech adjectiveSorted effiiloorsssuStarts with FEnds with S0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. bearing or containing fossils

Word origin

From fossil + -i- + -ferous.

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • 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.

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