Cainozoic
Americanadjective
adjective
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We may conclude then, imperfect though our knowledge of extinct insects is, that some of the most complex of insect life-stories were being worked out before the dawn of the Cainozoic era.
From The Life-Story of Insects by George H. (George Herbert) Carpenter
It is almost unnecessary to say this period corresponds with the Tertiary or Cainozoic era of geologists.
From The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science by John William Dawson
Unlike most Irish counties, Antrim owes its principal features to rocks of Mesozoic and Cainozoic age.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various
That unusual growth of brain which is the central fact of Cainozoic times marks a new communication and interdependence of individuals.
From A Short History of the World by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
And it is not till Cainozoic times that we have the endogenous grasses and palms and angiospermous exogens.
From Creation and Its Records by Baden Henry Baden-Powell
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