upper carboniferous period

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upper carboniferous period - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Upper Carboniferous period
      n 1: from 310 million to 280 million years ago; warm climate;
           swampy land [syn: Pennsylvanian, Pennsylvanian period,
           Upper Carboniferous, Upper Carboniferous period]