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Miocene, a. Geol.|ˈmaɪəsiːn|
Also meiocene.
[irreg. f. Gr. µείων less + καινός new, recent.]
1. The epithet applied to the middle division of the Tertiary strata (as containing remains of fewer now existing species than the Pliocene), and to the geological period which it represents.
1831[see eocene a. 1]. 1833Lyell Princ. Geol. III. 54 The next antecedent tertiary epoch we shall name Miocene. 1877Nature 7 June 101/2 The European miocene flora. 1880Dawkins Early Man i. 10 The Meiocene group.
2. quasi-n.
1882Geikie Text Bk. Geol. vi. iv. iii. §1. 862 The flora indicates a decidedly tropical climate in the earlier part of the Miocene. 1885Athenæum 24 Oct. 541/1 The..Eppelsheim deposits in Germany are still left in the miocene.
Hence Mioˈcenic a.
1863Lyell Antiq. Man xv. 314 Between the close of the miocenic and the commencement of the glacial epoch. 1889Lancet 6 July 45/1 A gigantic animal of the middle of the miocenic period of the Wyoming. |