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CAMBRIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cambrian mean? 

CAMBRIAN (noun)
  The noun CAMBRIAN has 2 senses:

1. from 544 million to about 500 million years ago; marine invertebratesplay

2. a native or resident of Walesplay

  Familiarity information: CAMBRIAN used as a noun is rare.


CAMBRIAN (adjective)
  The adjective CAMBRIAN has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to or characteristic of Wales or its people or their languageplay

  Familiarity information: CAMBRIAN used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CAMBRIAN (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

From 544 million to about 500 million years ago; marine invertebrates

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Cambrian; Cambrian period

Instance hypernyms:

geological period; period (a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed)

Holonyms ("Cambrian" is a part of...):

Paleozoic; Paleozoic era (from 544 million to about 230 million years ago)


Sense 2

Meaning:

A native or resident of Wales

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Cambrian; Cymry; Welsh; Welshman

Hypernyms ("Cambrian" is a kind of...):

European (a native or inhabitant of Europe)

Holonyms ("Cambrian" is a member of...):

Cambria; Cymru; Wales (one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; during Roman times the region was known as Cambria)

Derivation:

Cambrian (of or relating to or characteristic of Wales or its people or their language)


CAMBRIAN (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or characteristic of Wales or its people or their language

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

Cambrian; Welsh

Context example:

Welsh syntax

Pertainym:

Cambria (one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; during Roman times the region was known as Cambria)

Derivation:

Cambria (one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; during Roman times the region was known as Cambria)

Cambrian (a native or resident of Wales)


 Context examples 


An era of geological history which extends from the beginning of the Cambrian to the close of the Permian and is marked by the culmination of nearly all classes of invertebrates except the insects and in the later epochs of which seed-bearing plants, amphibians, and reptiles first appeared.

(Paleozoic, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)



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