cenozoic era

1. 1.

   approximately the last 63 million years

   SynonymsCenozoicAge of Mammals

   Broaderera

   Part ofPhanerozoic

   PartsQuaternaryTertiary

Questions about cenozoic era

What does cenozoic era mean?

cenozoic era means "approximately the last 63 million years".

What is another word for cenozoic era?

Close synonyms include Cenozoic, Age of Mammals. 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 cenozoic era a common word?

cenozoic era is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.