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paleoclimate

[ pey-lee-oh-klahy-mitor, especially British, pal-ee- ]

noun

  1. the climate of some former period of geologic time.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of paleoclimate1

First recorded in 1920–25; paleo- + climate
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Example Sentences

Onac and his team initially planned only to extract paleoclimate data from the ice, but they found much more when they reached Cave 29.

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