QUATERNARY
\kwətˈɜːnəɹˌɪ], \kwətˈɜːnəɹˌɪ], \k_w_ə_t_ˈɜː_n_ə_ɹ_ˌɪ]\
Definitions of QUATERNARY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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coming next after the third and just before the fifth in position or time or degree or magnitude; "the quaternary period of geologic time extends from the end of the tertiary period to the present"
By Princeton University
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coming next after the third and just before the fifth in position or time or degree or magnitude; "the quaternary period of geologic time extends from the end of the tertiary period to the present"
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Later than, or subsequent to, the Tertiary; Post-tertiary; as, the Quaternary age, or Age of man.
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The Quaternary age, era, or formation. See the Chart of Geology.
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By Noah Webster.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Consisting of fours; in bot., arranged in fours, as a leaf; in geol., applied to all accumulations above the true tertiaries, equivalent to post-tertiary.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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