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ossiferous

[ o-sif-er-uhs ]

adjective

  1. containing bones, especially fossil bones:

    ossiferous caves and rock beds.



ossiferous

/ ɒˈ²õɪ´ÚÉ™°ùÉ™²õ /

adjective

  1. geology containing or yielding bones

    ossiferous caves

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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of ossiferous1

1815–25; < Latin ossi- (combining form of os ) bone + -ferous
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Its remains are found not only in Ireland but in Scotland and England, and on the Continent, where they occur in bogs, lacustrine deposits, brick-clay, and ossiferous caves.

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Lying beneath this ossiferous sand, were several flint axes of human workmanship.

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Besides the bear and hyena, upwards of a hundred species of extinct animals have been found in the ossiferous caves of Great Britain, among them being those of the elephant and a rhinoceros.

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Brixham Cave, called also Windmill Hill Cavern, is a well-known ossiferous cave situated near Brixham, on the brow of a hill composed of Devonian limestone.

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The fragments of egg-shells, imbedded in the ossiferous deposits, had escaped the notice of all previous naturalists.

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