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Ordovician

Ordovician adjective: of a geologic period within the Paleozoic era; comprises lower, middle and upper epochs from about 488 to 443 million years ago.

Adjective

Ordovician (comparative more Ordovician, superlative most Ordovician)

  1. Of a geologic period within the Paleozoic era; comprises lower, middle and upper epochs from about 488 to 443 million years ago.
    • Against the dark Ordovician gabbro, the black volcanic base, Rhynie is a streak of technicolour.2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 205

Proper noun

Ordovician

  1. The Ordovician period.

Ordovician meaning in Tamil and Vietnamese

Ordovician in Tamil

ஒர்டோவைக்கன் புவியியல் காலம்

Ordovician in Vietnamese

Ordovician period
kỉ Oóc-đô-vít

Forms of Ordovician

comparativemore Ordovician
superlativemost Ordovician

Origin of Ordovician

From Ordovices + -ian. Coined by English geologist Charles Lapworth in 1879 after the Celtic tribe of the Ordovices.

Questions about Ordovician

What does Ordovician mean?
Ordovician means of a geologic period within the Paleozoic era; comprises lower, middle and upper epochs from about 488 to 443 million years ago.
What is Ordovician in Tamil?
Ordovician in Tamil is ஒர்டோவைக்கன் புவியியல் காலம். See Ordovician meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is Ordovician?
Ordovician can be an adjective or a proper noun.

Words near Ordovician in the dictionary

  1. Ordorica
  2. Ordoricas
  3. ordos
  4. Ordovian
  5. Ordovices
  6. Ordovician
  7. Ordoyne
  8. Ordoynes
  9. ordoñezite
  10. ordre
  11. ordre public

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Ordovician (page history and authors); ordovician (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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