ordovician period

1. 1.

   from 500 million to 425 million years ago; conodonts and ostracods and algae and seaweeds

   SynonymsOrdovician

   Broaderperiod

   Part ofPaleozoic

Questions about ordovician period

What does ordovician period mean?

ordovician period means "from 500 million to 425 million years ago; conodonts and ostracods and algae and seaweeds".

What is another word for ordovician period?

Close synonyms include Ordovician. 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 ordovician period a common word?

ordovician period 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.