noun
from 63 million to 2 million years ago
• Syn: ↑Tertiary
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑period, ↑geological period
• Part Holonyms: ↑Cenozoic, ↑Cenozoic era, ↑Age of Mammals
• Part Meronyms:
↑Pliocene, ↑Pliocene epoch, ↑Miocene, ↑Miocene epoch, ↑Oligocene, ↑Oligocene epoch, ↑Eocene, ↑Eocene epoch, ↑Paleocene, ↑Paleocene epoch
Useful english dictionary. 2012.