archeozoic

1. 1.

   of or belonging to earlier of two divisions of the Precambrian era

   “archeozoic life forms”

   Synonymsarchaeozoic

   Similarearly

   geology

Other forms of archeozoic

plural

archeozoics·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about archeozoic

What does archeozoic mean?

archeozoic means "the time from 3,800 million years to 2,500 million years ago; earth's crust formed; unicellular organisms are earliest forms of life". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in archeozoic?

archeozoic has 4 syllables and divides as ar-che-o-zoic under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for archeozoic?

Close synonyms include Archean, Archean eon, Archean aeon, Archaeozoic, Archeozoic eon. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is archeozoic a common word?

archeozoic is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.