ARCHAEOZOIC AEON

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

The time from 3,800 million years to 2,500 million years ago; earth's crust formed; unicellular organisms are earliest forms of life

Synonyms:

Archaeozoic; Archaeozoic aeon; Archean; Archean aeon; Archean eon; Archeozoic; Archeozoic eon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Instance hypernyms:

aeon; eon (the longest division of geological time)

Holonyms ("Archaeozoic aeon" is a part of...):

Precambrian; Precambrian aeon; Precambrian eon; Precambrian period (the eon following the Hadean time and preceding the Phanerozoic eon; from about 3,800 million years ago until 544 million years ago)

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