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    CENOZOIC ERA

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Approximately the last 63 million yearsplay

    Synonyms:

    Age of Mammals; Cenozoic; Cenozoic era

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

    Instance hypernyms:

    era; geological era (a major division of geological time; an era is usually divided into two or more periods)

    Meronyms (parts of "Cenozoic era"):

    Age of Man; Quaternary; Quaternary period (last 2 million years)

    Tertiary; Tertiary period (from 63 million to 2 million years ago)

    Holonyms ("Cenozoic era" is a part of...):

    Phanerozoic; Phanerozoic aeon; Phanerozoic eon (the period from about 540 million years ago until the present, a period when abundant life existed)

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