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Definition of tertiary
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Tertiary
(a.) Being of the third
formation,
order,
or rank;
third;
as, a
tertiary
use of a
word..
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Tertiary
::
Tertiary
(n.) The
Tertiary
era,
period,
or
formation..
Xiphodon
::
Xiphodon
(n.) An
extinct
genus of
artiodactylous
mammals
found in the
European
Tertiary
formations.
It had
slender
legs,
didactylous
feet, and small
canine
teeth..
Cenozoic
::
Cenozoic
(a.)
Belonging
to the most
recent
division
of
geological
time,
including
the
tertiary,
or Age of
mammals,
and the
Quaternary,
or Age of man.
[Written
also
caenozoic,
cainozoic,
kainozoic.]
See
Geology..
Triethylamine
::
Triethylamine
(n.) A
tertiary
amine
analogous
to
trimethylamine.
Olive
::
Olive (n.) One of the
tertiary
colors,
composed
of
violet
and green mixed in equal
strength
and
proportion..
Hipparion
::
Hipparion
(n.) An
extinct
genus of
Tertiary
mammals
allied
to the
horse,
but
three-toed,
having
on each foot a small
lateral
hoof on each side of the main
central
one. It is
believed
to be one of the
ancestral
genera
of the Horse
family..
Tertiary
::
Tertiary
(a.)
Growing
on the
innermost
joint of a
bird's
wing;
tertial;
-- said of
quills.
Bad Lands
::
Bad lands ()
Barren
regions,
especially
in the
western
United
States,
where
horizontal
strata
(Tertiary
deposits)
have been often
eroded
into
fantastic
forms,
and much
intersected
by
ca–ons,
and where lack of wood,
water,
and
forage
increases
the
difficulty
of
traversing
the
country,
whence
the name, first given by the
Canadian
French,
Mauvaises
Terres
(bad
lands)..
Pretertiary
::
Pretertiary
(a.)
Earlier
than
Tertiary.
Sivatherium
::
Sivatherium
(n.) A genus of very large
extinct
ruminants
found in the
Tertiary
formation
of
India.
The snout was
prolonged
in the form of a
proboscis.
The male had four
horns,
the
posterior
pair being large and
branched.
It was
allied
to the
antelopes,
but very much
larger
than any
exsisting
species..
Period
::
Period
(n.) One of the great
divisions
of
geological
time; as, the
Tertiary
period;
the
Glacial
period.
See the Chart of
Geology..
Oreodon
::
Oreodon
(n.) A genus of
extinct
herbivorous
mammals,
abundant
in the
Tertiary
formation
of the Rocky
Mountains.
It is more or less
related
to the
camel,
hog, and
deer..
Taxeopoda
::
Taxeopoda
(n. pl.) An order of
extinct
Mammalia
found in the
Tertiary
formations.
Laramie Group
::
Laramie
group () An
extensive
series
of
strata,
principally
developed
in the Rocky
Mountain
region,
as in the
Laramie
Mountains,
and
formerly
supposed
to be of the
Tertiary
age, but now
generally
regarded
as
Cretaceous,
or of
intermediate
and
transitional
character.
It
contains
beds of
lignite,
often
valuable
for coal, and is hence also
called
the
lignitic
group.
See Chart of
Geology..
Subapical
::
Subapennine
(a.)
Under,
or at the foot of, the
Apennine
mountains;
--
applied,
in
geology,
to a
series
of
Tertiary
strata
of the older
Pliocene
period..
Eocene
::
Eocene
(a.)
Pertaining
to the first in time of the three
subdivisions
into which the
Tertiary
formation
is
divided
by
geologists,
and
alluding
to the
approximation
in its life to that of the
present
era; as,
Eocene
deposits..
Tertiary
::
Tertiary
(a.) Being of the third
formation,
order,
or rank;
third;
as, a
tertiary
use of a
word..
Neocene
::
Neocene
(a.) More
recent
than the
Eocene,
that is,
including
both the
Miocene
and
Pliocene
divisions
of the
Tertiary..
Molasse
::
Molasse
(n.) A soft
Tertiary
sandstone;
--
applied
to a rock
occurring
in
Switzerland.
See Chart of
Geology.
Nummulites
::
Nummulites
(n.) A genus of
extinct
Tertiary
Foraminifera,
having
a thin, flat, round
shell,
containing
a large
number
of small
chambers
arranged
spirally..
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