Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or being the epoch of geologic time from about 23 to 5 million years ago, the fourth epoch of the Tertiary Period. It is characterized by the development of grasses and grazing mammals.
- noun The Miocene Epoch.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In geology, one of Lyell's subdivisions of the Tertiary. See
Tertiary . - noun In geology, the Miocene strata. Also spelled
Meiocene .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Geol.) Of or pertaining to the middle division of the Tertiary.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective geology Of a
geologic epoch within theNeogene period from about 23 to 5.3 million years ago; marked by thedrift ofcontinents to theirpresent position . - proper noun geology The Miocene epoch.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun from 25 million to 13 million years ago; appearance of grazing mammals
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The term Miocene (from Greek meion, less; and Greek kainos, recent) is intended to express a minor proportion of Recent species (of testacea); the term Pliocene (from Greek pleion, more; and Greek kainos, recent), a comparative plurality of the same.
The Antiquity of Man Charles Lyell 1836
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Discovered in Miocene rocks of Comallo, Argentina, it appears to be a phorusrhacine closely related to Devincenzia, another of those obscure taxa known from pretty good remains.
Terror birds Darren Naish 2006
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First Captain Miocene hires a drifter named Pamir - the umpteenth identity of a former captain that has been hiding for centuries - to find the killer.
REVIEW: Down These Dark Spaceways edited by Mike Resnick 2006
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First Captain Miocene hires a drifter named Pamir - the umpteenth identity of a former captain that has been hiding for centuries - to find the killer.
REVIEW: The Year's Best Science Fiction # 23 edited by Gardner Dozois 2006
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Discovered in Miocene rocks of Comallo, Argentina, it appears to be a phorusrhacine closely related to Devincenzia, another of those obscure taxa known from pretty good remains.
Archive 2006-10-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Rainfall increased, too, called the Miocene pluvials.
WordPress.com News 2009
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The strata next below the Pleistocene gravels and cave deposits are ascribed to the "Pliocene age" -- older than these are the "Miocene" and the "Eocene," and then you come to the Chalk, a good white landmark separating newer from older strata.
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“The Miocene was my father’s main interest when I started in this business,” Richard explained.
Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995
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“The Miocene was my father’s main interest when I started in this business,” Richard explained.
Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995
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So, two years ago, Miocene anomalies looked important, now not so clear – looks like CO2 and temperature do track.
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