Word Meanings - PLIOCENE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of, pertaining to, or characterizing, the most recent division of the Tertiary age.

Related words: (words related to PLIOCENE)

• DIVISIONARY
  Divisional.
• RECENTNESS
  Quality or state of being recent.
• DIVISIONALLY
  So as to be divisional.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• DIVISIONAL
  That divides; pas, a divisional line; a divisional general; a divisional surgeon of police. Divisional planes , planes of separation between rock masses. They include joints.
• CHARACTERIZE
  1. To make distinct and recognizable by peculiar marks or traits; to make with distinctive features. European, Asiatic, Chinese, African, and Grecian faces are Characterized. Arbuthot. 2. To engrave or imprint. Sir M. Hale. 3. To indicate the
• TERTIARY
  Possessing some quality in the third degree; having been subjected to the substitution of three atoms or radicals; as, a tertiary alcohol, amine, or salt. Cf. Primary, and Secondary. (more info) 1. Being of the third formation, order, or rank;
• RECENTLY
  Newly; lately; freshly; not long since; as, advices recently received.
• RECENT
  Of or pertaining to the present or existing epoch; as, recent shells. (more info) 1. Of late origin, existence, or occurrence; lately come; not of remote date, antiquated style, or the like; not already known, familiar, worn out, trite,
• DIVISIONOR
  One who divides or makes division. Sheldon.
• CHARACTERIZATION
  The act or process of characterizing.
• DIVISION
  The process of finding how many times one number or quantity is contained in another; the reverse of multiplication; also, the rule by which the operation is performed. (more info) 1. The act or process of diving anything into parts, or the state
• RECENTER
  To center again; to restore to the center. Coleridge.
• MISDIVISION
  Wrong division.
• POSTTERTIARY
  Following, or more recent than, the Tertiary; Quaternary.
• MISCHARACTERIZE
  To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to. They totally mischaracterize the action. Eton.
• PRECENTORSHIP
  The office of a precentor.
• PRECENTOR
  A leader of a choir; a directing singer. Specifically: The leader of the choir in a cathedral; -- called also the chanter or master of the choir. Hook. The leader of the congregational singing in Scottish and other churches.
• INDIVISION
  A state of being not divided; oneness. Bp. Hall.
• TRECENTIST
  A member of the trecento, or an imitator of its characteristics.