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Quaternary   Listen
adjective
Quaternary  adj.  
1.
Consisting of four; by fours, or in sets of four.
2.
(Geol.) Later than, or subsequent to, the Tertiary; Post-tertiary; as, the Quaternary age, or Age of man.





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"Quaternary" Quotes from Famous Books



... evolving between the Miocene and Pliocene into Mastodon arvernensis, after traversing the forms M. angustidens and M. longirostris, the second starting with the M. turicensis of the Lower Miocene and evolving through M. borsoni into the M. americanus of the Quaternary. The phyletic series of the true elephants in Europe are relatively short, and go back only to the Quaternary, Elephas antiquus giving origin to the Indian elephant, E. ...
— Form and Function - A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology • E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell


Words linked to "Quaternary" :   Cenozoic, quadruplet, quaternion, four, ordinal, Age of Man, quartet, figure, quaternate, Holocene, multiple, digit, fourth, glacial epoch, quaternity, Pleistocene, iv, foursome, Holocene epoch, Age of Mammals, Little Joe


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