Crossword-Solution: DEVONIAN
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Devonian | a. | Of or pertaining to Devon or Devonshire in England; as, the Devonian rocks, period, or system. |
| Devonian | n. | The Devonian age or formation. |
We have 1 clue for the answer “DEVONIAN”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Period in which amphibians and insects appeared | 1 answer |
✏️ Suggest another clue
Know another question for crossword solution "DEVONIAN"? Please add your clue to the biggest crossword databank now!
Dermatological complaint
?
E
?
C
?
Z
?
E
?
M
?
A
Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
AMCZEE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
10 +2
New Suggestion for "DEVONIAN"
Related word tools
Sentences with DEVONIAN (5)
She reached the Broomielaw on a Wednesday: the Devonian had a bellyful that morning, laying in breakfast manfully to provide against the future, and set off along the quays to seek employment.
The main points of interest consist, first in some highly fossiliferous strata, belonging to the Devonian or Carboniferous period; secondly, in proofs of a late small rise of the land; and lastly, in a solitary and superficial patch of yellowish limestone or travertin, which contains numerous impressions of leaves of trees, together with land-shells, not now existing.
Working together, these two friends classified the transition rocks into chronological groups, since familiar to every one in the larger outlines as the Silurian system (age of invertebrates) and the Devonian system (age of fishes)--names derived respectively from the country of the ancient Silures, in Wales and Devonshire, England.
Their language is the dross of the dregs of the vulgar Devonian; and the more learned a man is, the worse he can understand them.
The descent of the ammonites, taken as a group, is simple and clear; they arose as a branch of the nautiloids in the lower Devonian, the shells known as goniatites having zigzag, angulated sutures.
Quotes with DEVONIAN (2)
Out of the choked Devonian waters emerged sight and sound and the music that rolls invisible through the composer's brain. They are there still in the ooze along the tideline, though no one notices. The world is fixed, we say: fish in the sea, birds in the air. But in the mangrove swamps by the Niger, fish climb trees and ogle uneasy naturalists who try unsuccessfully to chase them back to the water. There are things still coming ashore.
The Devonian and Cornishman will be found by the visitor to be courteous and hospitable. There is no roughness of manner where unspoiled by periodic influx of strangers; he is kindly, tender-hearted, and somewhat suspicious.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2005).