tertiary period

Questions about tertiary period

What does tertiary period mean?

tertiary period means "from 63 million to 2 million years ago".

What is another word for tertiary period?

Close synonyms include Tertiary. 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 tertiary period a common word?

tertiary 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.