Tertiary period

Other forms: Tertiary periods

Definitions of Tertiary period
  1. noun
    the period of the Cenozoic era from approximately 66 to 2.6 million years ago
    synonyms: Tertiary
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    example of:
    geological period, period
    a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed
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