Oligocene

adjective

Ol·i·go·cene ˈä-li-gō-ˌsēn How to pronounce Oligocene (audio)

ˈō-

ə-ˈli-gə-

: of, relating to, or being an epoch of the Tertiary between the Eocene and Miocene or the corresponding series of rocks see Geologic Time Table

Oligocene noun

Word History

Etymology

borrowed from German Oligocän (now Oligozän), from oligo- oligo- + -cän -cene

Note: The term was introduced by the German geologist Heinrich Ernst Beyrich (1815-96) in a report "on the position of the Hessian tertiary formations" ("über die Stellung der Hessischen Tertiärbildungen") read to the Physical-Mathematical Class of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Berlin, on November 27, 1854 (published in Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin aus dem Jahre 1854, p. 664).

First Known Use

circa 1859, in the meaning defined above

单词	Oligocene
释义	Oligocene adjective Ol·i·go·cene ˈä-li-gō-ˌsēn ˈō- ə-ˈli-gə- : of, relating to, or being an epoch of the Tertiary between the Eocene and Miocene or the corresponding series of rocks see Geologic Time Table Oligocene noun Word History Etymology borrowed from German Oligocän (now Oligozän), from oligo- oligo- + -cän -cene Note: The term was introduced by the German geologist Heinrich Ernst Beyrich (1815-96) in a report "on the position of the Hessian tertiary formations" ("über die Stellung der Hessischen Tertiärbildungen") read to the Physical-Mathematical Class of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Berlin, on November 27, 1854 (published in Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin aus dem Jahre 1854, p. 664). First Known Use circa 1859, in the meaning defined above
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