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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 mammalsplay

  Familiarity information: PLIOCENE EPOCH used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PLIOCENE EPOCH (noun)


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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