ossiferous

[ o-sif-er-uh s ]

/ ɒˈsɪf ər əs /

containing bones, especially fossil bones: ossiferous caves and rock beds.

Origin of ossiferous

1815–25; < Latin ossi- (combining form of os) bone + -ferous

The ossiferous breccia differs from the bone-caves only in form.

The World Before the Deluge |Louis Figuier
This bed was covered with "made ground" of an ossiferous and vegetable character.

Primitive Man |Louis Figuier
Next he took up the exploration of ossiferous caves; and he began this work with that of Brixham, in Windmill Hill.

Cornish Characters |S. Baring-Gould
Lying beneath this ossiferous sand, were several flint axes of human workmanship.

A Manual of the Antiquity of Man |J. P. MacLean

And to the pre-glacial era that geologist referred most of the ossiferous caves and fissures.

Prehistoric Man |W. L. H. Duckworth

ossiferous

/ (ɒˈsɪfərəs) /

geology containing or yielding bones ossiferous caves

ossiferous

[ ŏ-sĭf′ər-əs ]

Containing or producing bone.