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Quaternary   /kwˈɑtərnˌɛri/   Listen
Quaternary

noun
1.
Last 2 million years.  Synonyms: Age of Man, Quaternary period.
2.
The cardinal number that is the sum of three and one.  Synonyms: 4, four, foursome, IV, Little Joe, quadruplet, quartet, quatern, quaternion, quaternity, tetrad.



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"Quaternary" Quotes from Famous Books



... Picardy then formed part of the Scandinavian island, while the island itself became in the third map period part of the growing continent of Europe. Now it is in France that remains of this race have been found in the quaternary strata, and the brachycephalous, or round-headed specimen known as the "Furfooz man," may be taken as a fair average of the type of the race in ...
— The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria • W. Scott-Elliot

... timber growth there. Throughout it is rich in minerals, coal, iron, and even gold, which has been mined in Georgia. In some sections there are fertile undulating uplands contrasting with the quagmired bottoms and rocky uplands of other parts of the Blue Ridge. There are high and uninviting quaternary bluffs that lure only the eye. It was the fertile valleys with their rich limestone soil producing abundant cane that first proved irresistible to the immigrants of Europe and lured them farther inland ...
— Blue Ridge Country • Jean Thomas

... greatly err, all the real knowledge which we possess of the fossil remains of man goes no farther back than the Quaternary epoch; and the most that can be asserted on Professor Virchow's side respecting these remains is, that none of them present us with more marked pithecoid characters than such as are to be found among the existing races of mankind.[4] But, if this be so, then the only just conclusion to ...
— Freedom in Science and Teaching. - from the German of Ernst Haeckel • Ernst Haeckel



Words linked to "Quaternary" :   recent, digit, period, Cenozoic, Age of Mammals, Holocene epoch, Pleistocene epoch, Recent epoch, glacial epoch, multiple, geological period, ordinal, Pleistocene, figure, Holocene, Cenozoic era



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