CENOZOIC

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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"):

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

Holonyms ("Cenozoic" 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)

Meaning:

Of or relating to or denoting the Cenozoic era

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

Cenozoic (approximately the last 63 million years)