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miocene

Mi·o·cene
M m

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    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [mahy-uh-seen]
    • /ˈmaɪ əˌsin/
    • /ˈmaɪə.ˌsin/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [mahy-uh-seen]
    • /ˈmaɪ əˌsin/

Definitions of miocene word

  • adjective miocene noting or pertaining to an epoch of the Tertiary Period, occurring from 25 to 10 million years ago, when grazing mammals became widespread. 1
  • noun miocene the Miocene Epoch or Series. 1
  • adjective miocene of, denoting, or formed in the fourth epoch of the Tertiary period, between the Oligocene and Pliocene epochs, which lasted for 19 million years 0
  • adjective miocene designating or of the first geologic epoch of the Neogene, characterized by the joining of what are now Africa, Arabia, and Eurasia and the development of manlike apes 0
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Origin of miocene

First appearance:

before 1825
One of the 37% newest English words
1825-35; mio- (< Greek meíōn less) + -cene

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  • baluchithere

    a hornless rhinoceros of the extinct genus Baluchitherium that inhabited central Asia during the Oligocene and early Miocene epochs: the largest land mammal known.

  • dryopithecine

    (sometimes initial capital letter) an extinct ape of the genus Dryopithecus, known from Old World Miocene fossils.

  • mastodon

    a massive, elephantlike mammal of the genus Mammut (Mastodon), that flourished worldwide from the Miocene through the Pleistocene epochs and, in North America, into recent times, having long, curved upper tusks and, in the male, short lower tusks.

  • neogene

    noting or pertaining to an interval of time corresponding to the Miocene and Pliocene epochs and accorded the status of a period when the Tertiary is considered an era. Compare Paleogene.

  • oreodont

    any of various extinct North American artiodactyls of the families Merycoidodontidae or Agriochoeridae, widespread from the late Eocene through early Miocene epochs.

  • ramamorph

    any of a group of extinct Miocene apes of Europe, Asia, and Africa, characterized by large molars and small incisors and typified by the genera Ramapithecus and Sivapithecus.
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