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paleoclimatic

paleoclimatic adjective: of or pertaining to the climate of a region in the past.

Adjective

paleoclimatic (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to the climate of a region in the past
    • Detecting the enhanced greenhouse effect has a strong parallel in trying to interpret the paleoclimatic record.1995, Climate Research Committee, Natural Climate Variability on Decade-to-century Time Scales, →ISBN, page 172

Forms of paleoclimatic

alternative formpalaeoclimatic

Origin of paleoclimatic

From paleo- + climatic.

Words formed from paleoclimatic

Questions about paleoclimatic

What does paleoclimatic mean?
Paleoclimatic means of or pertaining to the climate of a region in the past.
What part of speech is paleoclimatic?
Paleoclimatic is an adjective.

Words near paleoclimatic in the dictionary

  1. paleochronology
  2. paleocirculation
  3. paleoclassical
  4. paleoclimate
  5. paleoclimates
  6. paleoclimatic
  7. paleoclimatical
  8. paleoclimatically
  9. paleoclimatological
  10. paleoclimatologist
  11. paleoclimatologists

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