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PALEOCENE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Paleocene mean? 

PALEOCENE (noun)
  The noun PALEOCENE has 1 sense:

1. from 63 million to 58 million years ago; appearance of birds and earliest mammalsplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


PALEOCENE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

From 63 million to 58 million years ago; appearance of birds and earliest mammals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Paleocene; Paleocene epoch

Instance hypernyms:

epoch (a unit of geological time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself divided into ages)

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

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


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