Definitions for Tertiary

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Tertiary ter·ti·ar·y

Spelling: [tur-shee-er-ee, tur-shuh-ree]

IPA: /ˈtɜr ʃiˌɛr i, ˈtɜr ʃə ri/

Tertiary is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 169 anagrams from letters in Tertiary (aeirrtty).

Definitions for Tertiary

noun

1. (initial capital letter) Geology. the Tertiary Period or System.
2. Ornithology. a tertial feather.
3. (often initial capital letter) Ecclesiastical. a member of a tertiary branch of a religious order.
4. tertiary color.

adjective

1. of the third order, rank, stage, formation, etc.; third.
2. Chemistry. noting or containing a carbon atom united to three other carbon atoms. formed by replacement of three atoms or groups.
3. (initial capital letter) Geology. noting or pertaining to the period forming the earlier part of the Cenozoic Era, occurring from 65 million to 2 million years ago, characterized by the development and proliferation of mammals.
4. Ornithology. tertial.
5. Ecclesiastical. noting or pertaining to a branch, or third order, of certain religious orders that consists of lay members living in community (regular tertiaries) or living in the world (secular tertiaries)

Origin of Tertiary

1540-50; Latin tertiārius of third part or rank, equivalent to terti(us) third + -ārius -ary

Examples for Tertiary

(which is about 800 feet in height) to beneath the tertiary beds to the north.

tertiary Colours are three only, citrine, russet, and olive.

My only consolation is the knowledge that the speaker is entirely secondary (or tertiary) to the proceedings.

There should still be the tertiary larva, of which I see not a trace.

But forget about the tertiary side characters, the main players are also saddled with catastrophically absurd stories as well.

And we have seen the sudden increase of mammalian life in tertiary times.

The tertiary period had also its prominent class of existences.

We have seen that it is a state of tertiary formation and very complex.

The tertiary climate of Europe is believed to have been quite mild.

No trace of the family has yet been detected in even the tertiary rocks.