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CENOZOIC ERA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Approximately the last 63 million years
Synonyms:
Age of Mammals; Cenozoic; Cenozoic era
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Instance hypernyms:
era; geological era (a major division of geological time; an era is usually divided into two or more periods)
Meronyms (parts of "Cenozoic era"):
Age of Man; Quaternary; Quaternary period (last 2 million years)
Tertiary; Tertiary period (from 63 million to 2 million years ago)
Holonyms ("Cenozoic era" is a part of...):
Phanerozoic; Phanerozoic aeon; Phanerozoic eon (the period from about 540 million years ago until the present, a period when abundant life existed)
