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mya

mya symbol: million years ago: megayears ago.

Symbol (1)

mya

  1. million years ago: megayears ago.
    • The first (oldest) unit of time is the Precambrian Supereon, which covers much of Earth's history from its origins roughly 4.55 bya to 545 mya. Very primitive, one-celled life-forms arose as early as 4.0 bya and near the end of the era (570 mya) the oldest known fossils of multi-celled organisms...2015, Joyce A. Quinn, Susan L. Woodward, “Introduction”, in Earth's Landscape: An Encyclopedia of the World's Geographic Features, volumes I: A–L, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page xxxi

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Mya

Mya

  1. A female given name from Latin.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Mya

Mya (plural Myas)

  1. A surname.

Symbol (2) capitalized: Mya

Mya

  1. million years ago: megayears ago.
    • Both tabulates and rugosans evolved independently as part of the Ordovician Radiation; the tabulates appeared first in the Early Ordovician (~488 Mya), followed by rugosans about 20 My later.2013, Walter M. Goldberg, “A Brief History of Reefs and Corals”, in The Biology of Reefs and Reef Organisms, Chicago, Ill.; London: University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, section 13-2 (An Introduction...

Symbol (3) capitalized: MYA

MYA

  1. million years ago: megayears ago.

Forms of mya

pluralMyas

Origin of mya

A modern phonetic spelling of Maia or Maya.

Questions about mya

What does mya mean?
Mya means million years ago: megayears ago.
What part of speech is mya?
Mya can be a symbol or a proper noun.

Words near mya in the dictionary

  1. my very excellent mother just served us nine pizzas
  2. my watch has ended
  3. my way or the highway
  4. my word
  5. my-
  6. mya
  7. Myachkovskian
  8. Myah
  9. myal
  10. myalgia
  11. myalgias

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mya (page history and authors); Mya (page history and authors); MYA (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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