Definitions for Eocene

Eocene E·o·cene

Spelling: [ee-uh-seen]
IPA: /ˈi əˌsin/

Eocene is a 6 letter English word.

You can make 43 anagrams from letters in Eocene (ceeeno).

Definitions for Eocene

noun

  1. the Eocene Epoch or Series.

adjective

  1. noting or pertaining to an epoch of the Tertiary Period, occurring from 55 to 40 million years ago and characterized by the advent of the modern mammalian orders.

Origin of Eocene

First recorded in 1825-35; eo- + -cene

Examples for Eocene

The epoch following on after the Eocene is designated as the Miocene.

The Eocene sea however cannot have been much inferior in extent.

They had a place in the Eocene and Miocene forests of the old world and new.

Prestwich, Mr., on English and French Eocene formations, 328.

Species much like Rhinobatus occur in the Cretaceous and Eocene.

Primitive weasels, civets, and hyaenas appear also in the Eocene.

Traces of glacial conditions have also been met with in the Eocene and Miocene.

Eocene, miocene, pliocene Tuff, Lias and Trias and that is enough.

But the mammals are the most interesting vertebrates of the Eocene period.

The results of the struggle are registered in the Eocene rocks.

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