Cambrian Definition

kămbrē-ən, kām-
adjective
Of Cambria; Welsh.
Webster's New World
Designating or of the first geologic period of the Paleozoic Era, characterized by the development of warm, shallow seas and the first hard-shelled marine animals, esp. trilobites and brachiopods.
Webster's New World
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noun
A Welshman or Welshwoman.
American Heritage
A person born or living in Cambria; Welshman.
Webster's New World
The Cambrian Period.
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Other Word Forms of Cambrian

Noun

Singular:
Cambrian
Plural:
cambrians

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Cambrian

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Origin of Cambrian

  • From Medieval Latin Cambria , Wales alteration of Cumbria from Welsh Cymry Adj., sense 2, and n., sense 2, after Cambria

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Cambrian Sentence Examples

  • The higher steppes, as far as they are known, consist of Ordovician and Cambrian rocks, with an average elevation of 1500 to 3000 ft.

  • The breaking up of the old Archean foundation block began in Cambrian and Ordovician times.

  • We may conclude, therefore, that they were preceded, in Cambrian times or earlier, by Arthropods possessing well developed appendages on all the trunk-segments.

  • A narrow Cambrian sea must have extended across central Australia from the Kimberley Goldfield in the north-west, through Tempe Downs and the Macdonnell chain in central Australia, to the South Australian highlands, central Victoria at Mansfield, and northern Tasmania.

  • Cambrian rocks occur in each of these districts, and they are best developed in the South Australian high= lands, where they include a long belt of contemporary glacial deposits.

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