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ORDOVICIAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Ordovician mean?
• ORDOVICIAN (noun)
The noun ORDOVICIAN has 1 sense:
1. from 500 million to 425 million years ago; conodonts and ostracods and algae and seaweeds
Familiarity information: ORDOVICIAN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
From 500 million to 425 million years ago; conodonts and ostracods and algae and seaweeds
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
Ordovician; Ordovician period
Instance hypernyms:
geological period; period (a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed)
Holonyms ("Ordovician" is a part of...):
Paleozoic; Paleozoic era (from 544 million to about 230 million years ago)
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