Quaternaryadjective
/kwəˈtɜː.nər.i//ˈkwɑː.t̬ɚ.ner.i/specializedfrom or referring to the period of time from about 2.5 million years ago to the present, in which modern humans appeared:
the Quaternary period
Quaternary glaciation
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Prehistory
- Australopithecus
- broch
- brontosaurus
- carboniferous
- caveman
- mesolithic
- neolithic
- Ordovician
- Palaeogene
- palaeolithic
- prehistoric
- prehistory
- primaeval
- primal
- primeval
- stegosaurus
- stone-age
- the Anthropocene
- troglodyte
- tyrannosaurus
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the Quaternary
noun [ S ]
the Quaternary period