Paleocene
adjective
Pa·leo·cene ˈpā-lē-ə-ˌsēn 
especially British
ˈpa- : of, relating to, or being the earliest epoch of the Tertiary or the corresponding series of rocks see Geologic Time Table
Paleocene noun
Word History
Etymology
borrowed from French paléocène, from paléo- paleo- + -cène -cene
Note: Term introduced by the French (Alsatian) botanist Wilhelm Philippe Schimper (1808-80) in Traité de paléontologie végétale, tome 3 (Paris, 1874), p. 669 ff.
First Known Use
1877, in the meaning defined above
- the dope
- the Dow
- the Dow-Jones Industrial Average
- the down-low
- the downstairs
- the downtrodden
- the dozens
- the drink
- the dumper
- the dust settles
- the Dutch
- the east
- the economy
- the elder
- the elderly
- the eldest
- the Electoral College
- the end justifies the means
- the end of one's rope
- the end of one's tether
- the end of the line
- the end of the road
- the ends of the earth
- the English
- the Enlightenment