PHANEROZOIC EON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Phanerozoic eon mean? 

• PHANEROZOIC EON (noun)
  The noun PHANEROZOIC EON has 1 sense:

1. the period from about 540 million years ago until the present, a period when abundant life existed

  Familiarity information: PHANEROZOIC EON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHANEROZOIC EON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The period from about 540 million years ago until the present, a period when abundant life existed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Phanerozoic; Phanerozoic aeon; Phanerozoic eon

Instance hypernyms:

aeon; eon (the longest division of geological time)

Meronyms (parts of "Phanerozoic eon"):

Age of Mammals; Cenozoic; Cenozoic era (approximately the last 63 million years)