paleocene
英 ['peili:əsi:n]
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- n. 古新世
英英释义
- 1. from 63 million to 58 million years ago; appearance of birds and earliest mammals
实用场景例句
- Paleocene The oldest epoch of the Tertiary, 65 - 55 million yesrs ago.
- 古新世:第三纪最古的年代, 6500万～5500万年前.
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双语例句
- 1. Paleocene The oldest epoch of the Tertiary, 65 - 55 million yesrs ago.
- 古新世:第三纪最古的年代, 6500万～5500万年前.
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英文词源
- Paleocene (adj.)
- in reference to the geological epoch preceding the Eocene, 1877, from French paléocène (Schimpter, 1874), coined from paleo- + Greek kainos "new" (see recent). It is, thus, the "old new" age.