Pleistocene
['plaistəusi:n]
Definition
(noun.) from two million to 11 thousand years ago; extensive glaciation of the northern hemisphere; the time of human evolution.
Typist: Rodger--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to the epoch, or the deposits, following the Tertiary, and immediately preceding man.
(n.) The Pleistocene epoch, or deposits.
Editor: Megan
Definition
n. (geol.) the name given to the system comprising the older accumulations belonging to the Quaternary or Post-Tertiary division.
Edited by Cary
Examples
- An arctic fauna, musk ox, woolly mammoth, woolly rhinoceros, lemming, ushers in the Pleistocene. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Until the hard Pleistocene times they lived and died in the open, and their bodies were consumed or decayed altogether. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Nor is there any convincing evidence of man in America before the end of the Pleistocene. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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