Definitions for Miocene

Miocene Mi·o·cene

Spelling: [mahy-uh-seen]
IPA: /ˈmaɪ əˌsin/

Miocene is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 119 anagrams from letters in Miocene (ceeimno).

Definitions for Miocene

noun

  1. the Miocene Epoch or Series.

adjective

  1. noting or pertaining to an epoch of the Tertiary Period, occurring from 25 to 10 million years ago, when grazing mammals became widespread.

Origin of Miocene

1825-35; mio- (Greek meíōn less) + -cene

Examples for Miocene

The first took place in the Miocene age, about 800,000 years ago.

Most of these Radiolarian marls appear to date from the middle Tertiary (Miocene) period, and to be deep-sea formations.

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

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

Everywhere these Miocene islands, etc., bear a flora of true type.

In the Miocene the stature of the ancestors of the horse increased to that of a pony.

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

But this is not the only tree that grew in the Miocene forests of both continents.

In the Miocene and Pliocene the oscillations seem to have been slight and partial.

Let us now return to the Miocene Age, in which we are to seek for the presence of man.

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