quaternary period

Questions about quaternary period

What does quaternary period mean?

quaternary period means "last 2 million years".

What is another word for quaternary period?

Close synonyms include Quaternary, Age of Man. 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 quaternary period a common word?

quaternary 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for quaternary period come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.