fossiliferous

pronunciation

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  • Adjective:
    bearing or containing fossils

Word Origin

fossiliferous (adj.)
by 1830, from fossil + -ferous "producing, containing," from ferre "to bear" (see infer).

Example

1. The sediments are characteristically very fossiliferous .

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