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quaternarist

quaternarist noun: a specialist in the Quaternary period.

Noun

quaternarist (plural quaternarists)

  1. A specialist in the Quaternary period.
    • Indeed, in recent years, the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) "abolished" the Quaternary, according to riled quaternarists.2008 January 25, Richard A. Kerr, “A Time War Over the Period We Live In”, in Science, 319(5862), page 402

Forms of quaternarist

pluralquaternarists
alternative formQuaternarist

Origin of quaternarist

From Quaternary + -ist.

Questions about quaternarist

What does quaternarist mean?
Quaternarist means a specialist in the Quaternary period.
What part of speech is quaternarist?
Quaternarist is a noun.
What is the plural of quaternarist?
The plural of quaternarist is quaternarists.

Words near quaternarist in the dictionary

  1. quaternalized
  2. quaternarian
  3. quaternaries
  4. quaternarii
  5. quaternarily
  6. quaternarist
  7. quaternarists
  8. quaternarius
  9. quaternarization
  10. quaternarizations
  11. quaternary

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