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ARCHEAN AEON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Archean aeon mean? 

ARCHEAN AEON (noun)
  The noun ARCHEAN AEON 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 lifeplay

  Familiarity information: ARCHEAN AEON used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ARCHEAN AEON (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 ("Archean aeon" 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)


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