Fossiliferous

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Containing fossils.

    "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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    bearing or containing fossils wordnet

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"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."

Etymology

From fossil + -i- + -ferous.

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non-fossiliferous

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