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PLIOCENE EPOCH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
From 13 million to 2 million years ago; growth of mountains; cooling of climate; more and larger mammals
Synonyms:
Pliocene; Pliocene 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 ("Pliocene epoch" is a part of...):
Tertiary; Tertiary period (from 63 million to 2 million years ago)