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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In geology, the later Tertiary, including the Miocene and Pliocene.
  • noun In geology, the later Tertiary, including the Miocene and Pliocene.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Geol.) More recent than the Eocene, that is, including both the Miocene and Pliocene divisions of the Tertiary.

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