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Tertiary en · ADJ

Etymology

See tertiary.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Of or pertaining to the first part of the Cenozoic era when modern flora and mammals appeared.

Deriveds

Arcto-Tertiary Geoflora · post-Tertiary

Translations (7)

ca terciària (of the first part of the Cenozoic era) · fi tertiäärikautinen (of the first part of the Cenozoic era) · ka მესამეული (of the first part of the Cenozoic era) · it terziario (of the first part of the Cenozoic era) · ca terciari (of the first part of the Cenozoic era) · pl trzeciorzędowy (of the first part of the Cenozoic era) · fi tertiäärinen (of the first part of the Cenozoic era)

Tertiary en · PROPN

Etymology

See tertiary.

Meanings

1. The first part of the Cenozoic era when modern flora and mammals appeared.
   • […] a continental northern Alaskan element, including a series of endemic species and disjuncts that have survived the Pleistocene glaciation in northern Alaska and thus represent relicts of the much warmer Tertiary […] 1966 October, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume I, New York, N.Y.; London: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 4:

Translations (13)

fi tertiäärikausi (first part of the Cenozoic era) · fr Tertiaire (first part of the Cenozoic era) · de Tertiär (first part of the Cenozoic era) · sv tertiär (first part of the Cenozoic era) · ka მესამეული სისტემა (first part of the Cenozoic era) · hu harmadidőszak (first part of the Cenozoic era) · vi kỉ Đệ Tam (first part of the Cenozoic era) · it terziario (first part of the Cenozoic era) · hu harmadkor (first part of the Cenozoic era) · pl trzeciorzęd (first part of the Cenozoic era) · ka მესამეული პერიოდი (first part of the Cenozoic era) · ca terciari (first part of the Cenozoic era) · ja 第三紀 (first part of the Cenozoic era)