Producing or bearing coal; coal-bearing, especially used to describe rock layers or geological formations.
From Latin 'culm' (coal) plus 'ferre' (to bear or carry), with the suffix -ous; literally means 'coal-bearing.'
Geologists use 'culmiferous' to describe ancient rock layers—it's a word that reveals billions of years of plant and animal matter compressed into dark stone.
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