Pliocene Definition

plīə-sēn
adjective
Designating or of the second geologic epoch of the Neogene, characterized by the joining of what are now North and South America, the formation of the Arctic ice cap, the extensive migration of mammals between continents, and the development of apelike humans in Africa.
Webster's New World
noun
The Pliocene Epoch.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
  • Pliocene epoch
pronoun
(geology) The Pliocene epoch.
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Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Pliocene

  • the Pliocene

Origin of Pliocene

  • Greek pleiōn more pelə-1 in Indo-European roots –cene

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

Pliocene Sentence Examples

  • The Pliocene flora found refuges in favored localities from which at its close the lowlands were restocked while the arctic plants were left behind on the mountains.

  • Pliocene remains are less numerous than those of the Miocene.

  • The Pliocene appears only in the coast region of the Black and Azov Seas, but it is widely developed in the Aral-Caspian region, where, however, the Ust-Urt and the Obshchiy Syrt rose above the sea.

  • The Pliocene deposits are not very widely spread and are generally of fresh-water origin excepting near the coast, but marine Pliocene beds have been found at el Forklus in the Palmyra desert.

  • In most cases the eruptions appear to be of Pliocene or later date, but in the extreme north some of the basalt seems to belong to the Miocene period.

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Words Starting With

PPLPLI

Words Ending With

ENEENE

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Pliocene

Words Starting With P and Ending With E

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