Meaning of PALEOZOIC
| Pronunciation: | | `peyleeu'zowik
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| | Definition: | | [n] from 230 million to about 544 million years ago |
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| | Synonyms: | | Paleozoic era |
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| | See Also: | | Age of Fishes, Cambrian, Cambrian period, Carboniferous, Carboniferous period, Devonian, Devonian period, era, geological era, Ordovician, Ordovician period, Permian, Permian period, Silurian, Silurian period | |
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| | Definition: | | \Pa`le*o*zo"ic\, a. [Paleo- + Gr. ? life, fr. ? to
live.] (Geol.)
Of or pertaining to, or designating, the older division of
geological time during which life is known to have existed,
including the Silurian, Devonian, and Carboniferous ages, and
also to the life or rocks of those ages. See Chart of
{Geology}.
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