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PLIOCENE EPOCH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Pliocene epoch mean?
• PLIOCENE EPOCH (noun)
The noun PLIOCENE EPOCH has 1 sense:
1. from 13 million to 2 million years ago; growth of mountains; cooling of climate; more and larger mammals
Familiarity information: PLIOCENE EPOCH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
From 13 million to 2 million years ago; growth of mountains; cooling of climate; more and larger mammals
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
Pliocene; Pliocene epoch
Instance hypernyms:
epoch (a unit of geological time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself divided into ages)
Holonyms ("Pliocene epoch" is a part of...):
Tertiary; Tertiary period (from 63 million to 2 million years ago)
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