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AZOIC
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Dictionary entry overview: What does azoic mean?
• AZOIC (adjective)
The adjective AZOIC has 1 sense:
1. before the appearance of life
Familiarity information: AZOIC used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Before the appearance of life
Context example:
azoic rocks contain not organic remains
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)
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