The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ossiferous
Ossiferous \Os*sif"er*ous\, a. [L. os, ossis, a bone + -ferous: cf. F. ossif[`e]re.] Containing or yielding bone.
WordNet
ossiferous
adj. containing bones (especially fossil bones); "ossiferous caves"
Usage examples of "ossiferous".
Windmill Hill Cavern, is a well-known ossiferous cave situated near Brixham, on the brow of a hill composed of Devonian limestone.
It is just, at any rate, to recognize that even in his remotest resorts for temporary rest and retirement from the cares of government, he led the same kind of plain, modest life, spending all his leisure hours in arranging his collections of natural history, more especially the palaeo-ethnological or prehistoric, for which the ossiferous caverns of the Island of Capri supplied him with abundant materials.