CENOZOIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cenozoic mean? 

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

1. approximately the last 63 million years

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

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

1. of or relating to or denoting the Cenozoic era

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CENOZOIC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Approximately the last 63 million years

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Age of Mammals; Cenozoic; Cenozoic era

Instance hypernyms:

era; geological era (a major division of geological time; an era is usually divided into two or more periods)

Meronyms (parts of "Cenozoic"):

Age of Man; Quaternary; Quaternary period (last 2 million years)

Tertiary; Tertiary period (from 63 million to 2 million years ago)

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

Phanerozoic; Phanerozoic aeon; Phanerozoic eon (the period from about 540 million years ago until the present, a period when abundant life existed)

• CENOZOIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or denoting the Cenozoic era

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

Cenozoic (approximately the last 63 million years)