Look up: oligocene

1. Oligocene
   [n] - from 25 million to 40 million years ago
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2. Oligocene
   Ol'i·go·cene adjective [ Oligo- + Greek ... new, recent.] (Geol.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, certain strata which occupy an intermediate position between the Eocene and Miocene periods. -- noun The Oligocen...
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3. oligocene
   <geology> Of, pertaining to, or designating, certain strata which occupy an intermediate position between the Eocene and Miocene periods. ... The Oligocene period. ... Origin: Oligo- + Gr. New, recent. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
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4. Oligocene
   Oligocene epoch noun from 40 million to 25 million years ago; appearance of sabertoothed cats
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5. Oligocene
   • (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, certain strata which occupy an intermediate position between the Eocene and Miocene periods. • (n.) The Oligocene period. See the Chart of Geology.
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6. Oligocene
   Oligocene 1. The third of the five major worldwide divisions (epochs) of the Tertiary period (Cenozoic era), extending from the end of the Eocene to the beginning of the Miocene period. 2. The rock strata formed during this epoch.
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7. Oligocene
   An epoch of the early Tertiary period, spanning the time between 33.7 and 23.8 million years ago. It is named after the Greek words 'oligos' (little, few) and 'ceno' (new).
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8. Oligocene
   The Oligocene was the fifteenth geological period, 42,000,000 years ago.
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9. Oligocene
   a geological epoch lasting from 38 to 26 million years ago. See time table.
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10. Oligocene
    The `Oligocene` (symbol O_G-->) is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Period and extends from about 34 million to 23 million years before the present (33.9 ± 0.1 to 23.03 ± 0.05 καινός--> (kainos, new), and refers to the sparsity of additional modern ma...
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