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Oligocene epoch   /ˈɑləgoʊsˌin ˈɛpək/   Listen
Oligocene epoch

noun
1.
From 40 million to 25 million years ago; appearance of sabertoothed cats.  Synonym: Oligocene.





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... sets us wishing, those of us who think scientifically, that evolution had refrained from doing away with an extension by which alone we could now hope to manage it. We mean a tail! If afternoon teas had been started in the Oligocene Epoch instead of the seventeenth century, we are convinced that evolution, far from discarding this useful appendage, would have perfected it. A little hand would have evolved at the end of it—such a one as might hold a Perfect Gentleman's ...
— The Perfect Gentleman • Ralph Bergengren
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Words linked to "Oligocene epoch" :   epoch, tertiary, Tertiary period, Oligocene


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