Pleistocene
Adjective

Pleistocene (not comparable)

  1. (geology) Of a geologic epoch within the Neogene period from about 2,588,000 to 11,700 years ago (earlier definition 1.7 million to 11,000 years ago); marked by the evolution of man, and the extinction of the large mammals.
Translations
  • German: pleistozänisch
Proper noun
  1. (geology) The Pleistocene epoch.
Translations


This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.003
Offline English dictionary