Miocene Definition

mīə-sēn
adjective
Designating or of the first geologic epoch of the Neogene, characterized by the joining of what are now Africa, Arabia, and Eurasia and the development of manlike apes.
Webster's New World
noun
The Miocene Epoch.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
  • Miocene epoch
pronoun
(geology) The Miocene epoch.
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Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Miocene

  • the Miocene

Origin of Miocene

  • Greek meiōn less mei-2 in Indo-European roots –cene

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Ancient Greek μείων (meiōn, “less") + καινός (kainos, “new").

    From Wiktionary

Miocene Sentence Examples

  • The most widely spread of the sedimentary beds belong to the Miocene period.'

  • In Tertiary times the Central Plateau was the theatre of great volcanic activity from the Miocene, to the Pleistocene periods, and many of the volcanoes remain as nearly perfect cones to the present day.

  • The Miocene and Pliocene are absent.

  • It occurs in Miocene deposits and is also found washed up by the sea near Catania.

  • It is found in flat rolled pieces, irregularly distributed through a blue clay probably of Miocene age.

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