Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Living or occurring before the Tertiary.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Geol.) Earlier than Tertiary.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective geology Earlier than
Tertiary . - adjective Before
tertiary education .
Etymologies
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pre- + tertiary
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Examples
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These results further indicate the need to open the system at the exit point of pretertiary education.
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