Definitions for Pleistocene

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Pleistocene Pleis·to·cene

Spelling: [plahy-stuh-seen]

IPA: /ˈplaɪ stəˌsin/

Pleistocene is a 11 letter English word.

You can make 975 anagrams from letters in Pleistocene (ceeeilnopst).

Definitions for Pleistocene

adjective

1. noting or pertaining to the epoch forming the earlier half of the Quaternary Period, beginning about two million years ago and ending 10,000 years ago, characterized by widespread glacial ice and the advent of modern humans.

noun

1. the Pleistocene Epoch or Series.

Origin of Pleistocene

1830-40; Greek pleîsto(s) most (superlative of polýs much) + -cene

Examples for Pleistocene

Records of Pleistocene reptiles and amphibians from Florida.

There has not been time to erode them away since the Pleistocene glaciation.

In short, for months my companions and I travelled and hunted in the Pleistocene.

They are referred to the dawn of the Quaternary or Pleistocene period.

It will be convenient to divide these into two groups, the Recent and the Pleistocene.

The habitat requirements of elk and their speed of migration are probably the same today as at the end of the Pleistocene.

But proponents of the so-called paleo lifestyle are taking it back a bit further—all the way to the Pleistocene.

It is known that the Pleistocene was a time of augmented waste delivery.

All of the known fossils of it are lower jaws of Pleistocene Age.

In the Shadow of the Sabertooth: Global Warming, the Origins of the First Americans and the Terrible Beasts of the Pleistocene.