"fossiliferous" meaning in English

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          "word": "nonfossiliferous"
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          "ref": "1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The Fossil Whale”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 506:",
          "text": "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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          "ref": "1951, Max B Payne, Type Moreno formation and overlying Eocene strata on the West Side of the San Joaquin Valley, Fresno and Merced Counties, California, page 3:",
          "text": "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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          "sense": "containing fossils",
          "word": "fossiilipitoinen"
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          "sense": "containing fossils",
          "word": "fossilifère"
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          "sense": "containing fossils",
          "word": "fossilführend"
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          "sense": "containing fossils",
          "word": "fossilienhaltig"
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          "sense": "containing fossils",
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  "word": "fossiliferous"
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      "sense": "containing fossils",
      "word": "fossiilipitoinen"
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    {
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      "sense": "containing fossils",
      "word": "fossilifère"
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    {
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      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "containing fossils",
      "word": "fossilführend"
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    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "containing fossils",
      "word": "fossilienhaltig"
    },
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      "sense": "containing fossils",
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  "word": "fossiliferous"
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