Crossword-Solution: TERTIARY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Tertiary | a. | Being of the third formation, order, or rank; third; as, a tertiary use of a word. |
| Tertiary | a. | Possessing some quality in the third degree; having been subjected to the substitution of three atoms or radicals; as, a tertiary alcohol, amine, or salt. Cf. Primary, and Secondary. |
| Tertiary | a. | Later than, or subsequent to, the Secondary. |
| Tertiary | a. | Growing on the innermost joint of a bird's wing; tertial; -- said of quills. |
| Tertiary | n. | A member of the Third Order in any monastic system; as, the Franciscan tertiaries; the Dominican tertiaries; the Carmelite tertiaries. See Third Order, under Third. |
| Tertiary | n. | The Tertiary era, period, or formation. |
| Tertiary | n. | One of the quill feathers which are borne upon the basal joint of the wing of a bird. See Illust. of Bird. |
We have 13 clues for the answer “TERTIARY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Alps' formative period | 1 answer |
| Level below secondary | 1 answer |
| Like blue-green, colorwise | 1 answer |
| Of the third order | 1 answer |
| Of third rank | 1 answer |
| TERTIAL | 1 answer |
| THIRD in degree | 1 answer |
| Third in rank | 1 answer |
| Third level | 1 answer |
| Third-level | 1 answer |
| from 63 million to 2 million years ago | 1 answer |
| Period of the Cenozoic Era | 2 answers |
| Third __ | 8 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETER
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greedy person
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Sentences with TERTIARY (5)
Ever since the possibilities of computer-searching have emerged, scholars in the field of late ancient and early medieval studies (philosophers, theologians, classicists, and those studying the history of natural law and the history of the legal development of Western civilization) have been longing for a fully searchable version of Western literature, for example, all the texts of Augustine and Bernard of Clairvaux and Boethius, not to mention all the secondary and tertiary authors.
The then Editor of QST wrote: "We have tested most of the circuits used by the Britishers and find them one and all decidedly inferior to our standard American regenerative circuit using variometer tuning in secondary and tertiary circuits.
The Tertiary age, or age of Mammals, when the mammalia, or quadrupeds, abounded, and were the dominant race.
Looming no further back in the geological records than the Tertiary Period, the Oregon of that time looks altogether strange in the few suggestive glimpses we may get of it—forests in which palm trees wave their royal crowns, and strange animals roaming beneath them or about the reedy margins of lakes, the oreodon, the lophiodon, and several extinct species of the horse, the camel, and other animals.
Boucher de Perthes's contributions to the knowledge of prehistoric man His conclusions confirmed by Lyell and others Cave explorations of Lartet and Christy Evidence of man's existence furnished by rude carvings Cave explorations in the British Islands Evidence of man's existence in the Drift period In the early Quaternary and in the Tertiary periods CHAPTER VIII.
Quotes with TERTIARY (3)
The spread of secondary and latterly of tertiary education has created a large population of people, often with well-developed literary and scholarly tastes, who have been educated far beyond their capacity to undertake analytical thought.
How have people come to be taken in by The Phenomenon of Man? We must not underestimate the size of the market for works of this kind [pseudoscience/'woo'], for philosophy-fiction. Just as compulsory primary education created a market catered for by cheap dailies and weeklies, so the spread of secondary and latterly tertiary education has created a large population of people, often with well-developed literary and scholarly tastes, who have been educated far beyond their capa…
From our primary schools to secondary schools, to tertiary institutions, there must be a mass campaign to educate our people in the value of labour.
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Appears in: Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, WSJ.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1970–2024).