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AGE OF FISHES
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Age of Fishes mean?
• AGE OF FISHES (noun)
The noun AGE OF FISHES has 1 sense:
1. from 405 million to 345 million years ago; preponderance of fishes and appearance of amphibians and ammonites
Familiarity information: AGE OF FISHES used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
From 405 million to 345 million years ago; preponderance of fishes and appearance of amphibians and ammonites
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
Age of Fishes; Devonian; Devonian period
Instance hypernyms:
geological period; period (a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed)
Holonyms ("Age of Fishes" is a part of...):
Paleozoic; Paleozoic era (from 544 million to about 230 million years ago)
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