CENOZOIC ERA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cenozoic era mean? 

• CENOZOIC ERA (noun)
  The noun CENOZOIC ERA has 1 sense:

1. approximately the last 63 million years

  Familiarity information: CENOZOIC ERA used as a noun is very rare.

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• CENOZOIC ERA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Approximately the last 63 million years

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Age of Mammals; Cenozoic; Cenozoic era

Instance hypernyms:

era; geological era (a major division of geological time; an era is usually divided into two or more periods)

Meronyms (parts of "Cenozoic era"):

Age of Man; Quaternary; Quaternary period (last 2 million years)

Tertiary; Tertiary period (from 63 million to 2 million years ago)

Holonyms ("Cenozoic era" is a part of...):

Phanerozoic; Phanerozoic aeon; Phanerozoic eon (the period from about 540 million years ago until the present, a period when abundant life existed)