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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 life
Familiarity information: ARCHEAN AEON used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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