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Cenozoic   Listen
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Cenozoic  adj.  (Written also caenozoic, cainozoic, kainozoic)  (Geol.) Belonging to the most recent division of geological time, including the tertiary, or Age of mammals, and the Quaternary, or Age of man. See Geology. Note: This word is used by many authors as synonymous with Tertiary, the Quaternary Age not being included.





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"Cenozoic" Quotes from Famous Books



... about their Atlantises,—their submerged continents!" he exclaimed, with a sniff through his wide, hairy nostrils. "Why, Trednoke, do you realize that we are living literally at the bottom of a Mesozoic—at any rate, Cenozoic—sea?" ...
— The Golden Fleece • Julian Hawthorne


Words linked to "Cenozoic" :   Tertiary period, Cenozoic era, quaternary, Age of Mammals, tertiary, Quaternary period, Age of Man, geological era, era


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