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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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Coryphodon
::
Coryphodon
(n.) A genus of
extinct
mammals
from the
eocene
tertiary
of
Europe
and
America.
Its
species
varied
in size
between
the tapir and
rhinoceros,
and were
allied
to those
animals,
but had
short,
plantigrade,
five-toed
feet, like the
elephant..
Toxodonta
::
Toxodonta
(n.pl.)
An
extinct
order of
Mammalia
found in the South
American
Tertiary
formation.
The
incisor
teeth were long and
curved
and
provided
with a
persistent
pulp. They are
supposed
to be
related
both to the
rodents
and
ungulates.
Called
also
Toxodontia.
Tertiary
::
Tertiary
(a.) Later than, or
subsequent
to, the
Secondary..
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..
Pretertiary
::
Pretertiary
(a.)
Earlier
than
Tertiary.
Amblypoda
::
Amblypoda
(n. pl.) A group of
large,
extinct,
herbivorous
mammals,
common
in the
Tertiary
formation
of the
United
States..
Neocene
::
Neocene
(a.) More
recent
than the
Eocene,
that is,
including
both the
Miocene
and
Pliocene
divisions
of the
Tertiary..
Miocene
::
Miocene
(a.) Of or
pertaining
to the
middle
division
of the
Tertiary.
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..
Posttertiary
::
Posttertiary
(a.)
Following,
or more
recent
than, the
Tertiary;
Quaternary..
Syphilitic
::
Syphilis
(n.) The pox, or
venereal
disease;
a
chronic,
specific,
infectious
disease,
usually
communicated
by
sexual
intercourse
or by
hereditary
transmission,
and
occurring
in three
stages
known as
primary,
secondary,
and
tertiary
syphilis.
See under
Primary,
Secondary,
and
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..
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..
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)..
Diabase
::
Diabase
(n.) A
basic,
dark-colored,
holocrystalline,
igneous
rock,
consisting
essentially
of a
triclinic
feldspar
and
pyroxene
with
magnetic
iron; -- often
limited
to rocks
pretertiary
in age. It
includes
part of what was early
called
greenstone..
Taxeopoda
::
Taxeopoda
(n. pl.) An order of
extinct
Mammalia
found in the
Tertiary
formations.
Crag
::
Crag (n.) A
partially
compacted
bed of
gravel
mixed with
shells,
of the
Tertiary
age..
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