OLIGOCENE EPOCH

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

From 40 million to 25 million years ago; appearance of sabertoothed cats

Synonyms:

Oligocene; Oligocene epoch

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Instance hypernyms:

epoch (a unit of geological time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself divided into ages)

Holonyms ("Oligocene epoch" is a part of...):

Tertiary; Tertiary period (from 63 million to 2 million years ago)

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