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    PLIOCENE EPOCH

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    From 13 million to 2 million years ago; growth of mountains; cooling of climate; more and larger mammalsplay

    Synonyms:

    Pliocene; Pliocene epoch

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

    Instance hypernyms:

    epoch (a unit of geological time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself divided into ages)

    Holonyms ("Pliocene epoch" is a part of...):

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

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