ARCHAEOZOIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Archaeozoic mean? 

• ARCHAEOZOIC (noun)
  The noun ARCHAEOZOIC has 1 sense:

1. the time from 3,800 million years to 2,500 million years ago; earth's crust formed; unicellular organisms are earliest forms of life

  Familiarity information: ARCHAEOZOIC used as a noun is very rare.

• ARCHAEOZOIC (adjective)
  The adjective ARCHAEOZOIC has 1 sense:

1. of or belonging to earlier of two divisions of the Precambrian era

  Familiarity information: ARCHAEOZOIC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARCHAEOZOIC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The time from 3,800 million years to 2,500 million years ago; earth's crust formed; unicellular organisms are earliest forms of life

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Archaeozoic; Archaeozoic aeon; Archean; Archean aeon; Archean eon; Archeozoic; Archeozoic eon

Instance hypernyms:

aeon; eon (the longest division of geological time)

Holonyms ("Archaeozoic" is a part of...):

Precambrian; Precambrian aeon; Precambrian eon; Precambrian period (the eon following the Hadean time and preceding the Phanerozoic eon; from about 3,800 million years ago until 544 million years ago)

Derivation:

archaeozoic (of or belonging to earlier of two divisions of the Precambrian era)

• ARCHAEOZOIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or belonging to earlier of two divisions of the Precambrian era

Synonyms:

archaeozoic; archeozoic

Context example:

archeozoic life forms

Similar:

early (at or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time)

Domain category:

geology (a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks)

Derivation:

Archaeozoic (the time from 3,800 million years to 2,500 million years ago; earth's crust formed; unicellular organisms are earliest forms of life)