Nakuran
/naˈkuːrən/Geology. Now rare
noun
An East African pluvial period of the Pleistocene epoch, which followed the Makalian pluvial.
adjective
Of, relating to, or designating this pluvial period.
Origin
1920s; earliest use found in Louis Leakey (1903–1972), archaeologist and palaeoanthropologist. From the name of Lake Nakuru in Kenya + -an.