Crossword-Solution: PLEISTOCENE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pleistocene | a. | Of or pertaining to the epoch, or the deposits, following the Tertiary, and immediately preceding man. |
| Pleistocene | n. | The Pleistocene epoch, or deposits. |
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| PLEISTOCENE | anagram | INTELESCOPE |
We have 21 clues for the answer “PLEISTOCENE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| the time of human evolution | 1 answer |
| from two million to 11 thousand years ago | 1 answer |
| When modern humans developed | 1 answer |
| Epoch characterized by widespread glacial ice | 1 answer |
| CHARACTERIZED BY ABUNDANCE OF VERDURE | 10 answers |
| CHARACTERIZED BY REPETITION | 10 answers |
| CHARACTERIZED BY EXPRESSION | 10 answers |
| CHARACTERIZED BY ERRORS | 10 answers |
| CHARACTERIZED BY COMPLETE COWARDLINESS | 10 answers |
| CHARACTERIZED BY SEXUALITY | 10 answers |
| CHARACTERIZED BY THRIFTINESS | 10 answers |
| CHARACTERIZED BY PAPULES OR PUSTULES OR COMEDONES | 10 answers |
| CHARACTERIZED BY MUSICAL DISSONANCE | 10 answers |
| CHARACTERIZED BY A LACK OF TONUS | 10 answers |
| A BLOCK OR COLUMN OF GLACIAL ICE | 10 answers |
| CHARACTERIZED BY A FEELING OF IRRESPONSIBILITY | 10 answers |
| characterized by malice | 10 answers |
| CHARACTERIZED BY OR OF THE NATURE OF A TROPE OR TROPES | 11 answers |
| CHARACTERIZED BY MOTION | 11 answers |
| CHARACTERIZED BY | 11 answers |
| CHARACTERIZED BY UNITY | 11 answers |
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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
MECAZE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PLEISTOCENE (5)
Nevertheless, looking to a remotely future epoch, there can be little doubt that all the more modern _marine_ formations, namely, the upper pliocene, the pleistocene and strictly modern beds of Europe, North and South America, and Australia, from containing fossil remains in some degree allied, and from not including those forms which are found only in the older underlying deposits, would be correctly ranked as simultaneous in a geological sense.
Consider the prodigious vicissitudes of climate during the pleistocene period, which includes the whole glacial epoch, and note how little the specific forms of the inhabitants of the sea have been affected.
Therefore, if the Noachian legend is to be taken for the history of an event which happened in the glacial epoch, we must revise our notions of pleistocene civilisation.
Anything more than a parochial acquaintance with physical geography and geology would suffice to remind its possessor that the Holy Land itself offers a standing protest against bringing such a deluge as that of Noah anywhere near it, either in historical times or in the course of that pleistocene period, of which the "great ice age" formed a part.
This fact acquires a peculiar importance when we proceed to consider the grounds for the conclusion that the old Palestinian mere attained its highest level in the cold period of the pleistocene epoch.
Quotes with PLEISTOCENE (3)
There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of man-made evolution, every dog is still only two meals away from being a wolf. These dogs advance deliberately, purposefully, the wilderness made flesh, their teeth yellow, their breath a-stink, while in the distance their owners witter, "He's an old soppy really, just poke him if he's a nuisance," and in the green of their eyes the red campfires of the Pleistocene gleam and flicker.
You English," said Steenhold." You Americans," said Rud." When you aren't as fresh as paint," he said, "you Americans are as stale as old cabbage leaves. I'm amazed at your Labour leaders, at the sort of things you can still take seriously as Presidential Candidates. These leonine reverberators tossing their manes back in order to keep their eyes on the White House -- they belong to the Pleistocene. We dropped that sort of head in England after John Bright. When the Revolutio…
Our humanity consists in the fact that we do more than survive, that a great part of what we do confers no survival benefit in terms presumably salient from the Pleistocene point of view.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2006–2015).