fossiliferous

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fossiliferous

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adjective more fossiliferous · most fossiliferous

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.

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adj containing fossils

Français	fossilifère
Deutsch	fossilführend, fossilienhaltig
Italiano	fossilifero
Ελληνικά	απολιθωματοφόρος apolithomatofóros

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@misc{fossiliferous_2026,
  title = {fossiliferous},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/fossiliferous},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}