Crossword-Solution: PLIOCENE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pliocene | a. | Of, pertaining to, or characterizing, the most recent division of the Tertiary age. |
| Pliocene | n. | The Pliocene period or deposits. |
We have 24 clues for the answer “PLIOCENE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| About 5 million years ago | 1 answer |
| of the Pliocene geological time period | 1 answer |
| million years ago Epoch | 1 answer |
| from 13 million to 2 million years ago | 1 answer |
| Last epoch of the Tertiary period | 1 answer |
| Epoch when the landmasses of North and South America joined | 1 answer |
| Epoch when the Mediterranean Sea was formed | 1 answer |
| Epoch in which the Mediterranean Sea was formed | 1 answer |
| Epoch in which the Isthmus of Panama was formed | 1 answer |
| Epoch from two to five million years ago | 1 answer |
| Epoch from 10 to 2 million years ago | 1 answer |
| Tertiary Period epoch | 2 answers |
| Of a geological period. | 2 answers |
| Time of the mammals | 3 answers |
| Tertiary period | 3 answers |
| Early epoch. | 3 answers |
| Geological epoch. | 6 answers |
| A PERIOD OF 2 MONTHS | 10 answers |
| ALL ___ YEARS AGO | 11 answers |
| an epoch Oedipus | 11 answers |
| Ancient Epoch | 11 answers |
| A PERIOD OF 10 YEARS | 11 answers |
| a period of five years | 13 answers |
| Geological period | 21 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with PLIOCENE (5)
True, the billiard-tables were of the Old Silurian Period, and the cues and balls of the Post-Pliocene; but there was refreshment in this, not discomfort; for there is rest and healing in the contemplation of antiquities.
Unquestionably a counterpart of the Megatherium of the post-Pliocene period of the outer crust, whose fossilized skeleton has been found in South America." "But the grotesque inhabitants of this forest?" I urged.
What upstarts of yesterday are the Pharaohs in comparison with the men who survived the tragedy of the glacial period! The ancient history of man--only now beginning to be studied--dates from the Pliocene or Miocene period; the modern history, as we know it, embraces that brief space of time that has elapsed since the earliest Egyptian and Babylonian records were made.
The natural line of descent would seem to be through the following genera: Orohippus, of the eocene; Miohippus and Anchitherium, of the miocene; Anchippus, Hipparion, Protohippus, Phohippus, of the pliocene; and Equus, quaternary and recent.
Hipparion and Pliohippus, of the pliocene, equalled the ass in height; while the size of the quaternary Equus was fully up to that of a modern horse.
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1958–2009).