MODERN-DAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does modern-day mean? 

• MODERN-DAY (adjective)
  The adjective MODERN-DAY has 1 sense:

1. characteristic of the present

  Familiarity information: MODERN-DAY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MODERN-DAY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Characteristic of the present

Synonyms:

contemporary; modern-day

Context example:

the role of computers in modern-day medicine

Similar:

modern (belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages)

 Context examples 

Paleontologists have discovered an almost complete skull of a previously unknown mammal that likely resembled a large modern-day groundhog and lived alongside dinosaurs.

(Scientists discover fossil of bizarre groundhog-like mammal on Madagascar, NSF)

The result, in modern-day peanuts, is a complex genomic blend that’s nearly as big as the human genome, which is about 3 billion DNA base pairs.

(Peanut Genome Sequenced with Unprecedent Accuracy, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

The findings, according to the scientists, suggest that ancient soils from a site in modern-day Wyoming acted as a source of atmospheric carbon dioxide, emitting the greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, not a sink (trapping and storing carbon underground).

(Clues found on how soils may respond to climate change, National Science Foundation)

For example, one such group, the turacos (‘banana eaters’) are fruit-eating birds which are only found in the forests and savannahs of sub-Saharan Africa, but fossils of an early turaco relative have been found in modern-day Wyoming, in the northern United States.

(Past climate change pushed birds from the northern hemisphere to the tropics, University of Cambridge)

These people were a significant part of human history, they diversified almost at the same time as the ancestors of modern-day Asians and Europeans and it’s likely that at one point they occupied large regions of the northern hemisphere.

(DNA from 31,000-year-old milk teeth leads to discovery of new group of ancient Siberians, University of Cambridge)

Fossils found on the expeditions indicate that the sea supported some of the largest sea snakes and catfish that ever lived, extinct fishes that were giants compared to their modern-day relatives, mollusk-crushing fishes, tropical invertebrates, long-snouted crocodilians, early mammals and mangrove forests, said O’Leary.

(Ancient Saharan seaway illustrates how Earth’s climate and creatures can undergo extreme change, National Science Foundation)