Crossword-Solution: ORDOVICIAN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ordovician | a. | Of or pertaining to a division of the Silurian formation, corresponding in general to the Lower Silurian of most authors, exclusive of the Cambrian. |
| Ordovician | n. | The Ordovician formation. |
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| CAMBRIAN system, period above the | 1 answer |
| Period in which primitive fishes appeared | 1 answer |
| LOWER Palaeozoic era, system of the | 3 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings,
whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by
a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the
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Hint 2 anagram
INEOTOM
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A FEELING OF GREAT ELATION
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Sentences with ORDOVICIAN (5)
The group reached the acme of abundance and relative importance in the Cambrian and Ordovician; then followed a long, slow decline, ending in complete and final disappearance before the end of the Permian.
Its FAMILY characters, represented in different genera and species, range from the Ordovician to the close of the Paleozoic; while the characters which it shares with all its order, the Zoantharia, began in the Cambrian and are found in living species.
The Cambrian carries the Roman name of Wales, and the Ordovician and Silurian the names of tribes of ancient Britons which inhabited the same country.
CHAPTER XVII THE ORDOVICIAN AND SILURIAN [Footnote: Often known as the Lower Silurian.] THE ORDOVICIAN In North America the Ordovician rocks lie conformably on the Cambrian.
The limestones of the early and middle Ordovician show that now the shore had become remote and the lands had become more low.
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Appears in: Chronicle.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2005).