Eoceneadj.
英 'i:əusi:n | 美
中文adj. 始新世的；第三纪下层的\nn. 始新世；第三纪下层
始新世的；第三纪下层的
n. 始新世；第三纪下层
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Eocene (adj.)in reference to the second epoch of the Tertiary Period, 1831, from eo- "earliest" + Latinized form of Greek kainos "new" (see recent). Coined in English (along with Miocene and Pliocene) by the Rev. William Whewell (1794-1866), English polymath, and meant as "the dawn of the recent." As a noun from 1851.
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