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Pleiocene

Pleiocene is the alternative form of Pliocene.

Meaning of Pliocene

Adjective

Pliocene (not comparable)

  1. Of a geologic epoch within the Neogene period from about 5.3 to 1.7 million years ago; marked by the appearance of humanity's first ancestors.
    • [I]n a final sentence he expressed his conviction that his opponents "did not in truth represent the thought of the twentieth century, but might rather be regarded as mental fossils dug from some early Pliocene horizon ".1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019

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Questions about Pleiocene

What is Pleiocene the alternative form of?
Pleiocene is the alternative form of Pliocene.

Words near Pleiocene in the dictionary

  1. pleinairists
  2. pleio-
  3. pleiobar
  4. pleiobars
  5. pleiocarpamine
  6. Pleiocene
  7. pleiochasia
  8. pleiochasial
  9. pleiochasium
  10. pleiochroism
  11. pleiocyclic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Pleiocene (page history and authors); Pliocene (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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