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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In geology, the later Tertiary, including the Miocene and Pliocene.
- noun In geology, the later Tertiary, including the Miocene and Pliocene.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Geol.) More recent than the Eocene, that is, including both the Miocene and Pliocene divisions of the Tertiary.
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