nnoun.timeany period of time during which glaciers covered a large part of the earth's surfaceSynset:glacial period ice age
Examples:- the most recent ice age was during the Pleistocene
Part Holonyms:prehistoric culture prehistory
Hypernyms:geological period period
Inherited Hypernyms:ice ageperiodgeological timetimeattributeabstractionentity
nnoun.timefrom two million to 11 thousand years ago; extensive glaciation of the northern hemisphere; the time of human evolutionSynset:Glacial epoch Pleistocene Pleistocene epoch
Part Holonyms:Age of Man Quaternary Quaternary period
Instance Hypernyms:epoch
Inherited Hypernyms:pleistoceneepochgeological timetimeattributeabstractionentity