tertiary
Noun
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From 63 million to 2 million years ago (synset 115150049)
is an instance of: geological period, period - a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formedhas:
- pliocene, pliocene epoch - from 13 million to 2 million years ago; growth of mountains; cooling of climate; more and larger mammals
- miocene, miocene epoch - from 25 million to 13 million years ago; appearance of grazing mammals
- oligocene, oligocene epoch - from 40 million to 25 million years ago; appearance of sabertoothed cats
- eocene, eocene epoch - from 58 million to 40 million years ago; presence of modern mammals
- paleocene, paleocene epoch - from 63 million to 58 million years ago; appearance of birds and earliest mammals
same as: tertiary period
Adjective
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Coming next after the second and just before the fourth in position (synset 302209976)
similar to: ordinal - being or denoting a numerical order in a series
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