| 单词 | coal forest |
| 释义 | > as lemmascoal forest coal forest n. an ancient forest from which a coal deposit was formed, typically a dense, species-rich swamp forest of the Carboniferous or Permian periods. ΚΠ ?1848 E. Lankester Nat. Hist. Creation 15 The general vegetation of the coal forests, then resembled more this tree fern, than that of any other plant which we have existing..at the present day. 1934 Geogr. Rev. 24 229 The display begins with a mural of a coal forest. 2008 A. Farjon Nat. Hist. Conifers xi. 77 I saw in a museum the plant fossils from the coal mines and a diorama of a coal forest in the Carboniferous. < as lemmas |
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