Noachian

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Etymology 1[edit]

From Noach (“variant of Noah”) +‎ -ian.

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Noachian (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to Noah or his time. [from 17th c.]
    • 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 13:
      The victims of the Noachian flood would add another 20 million or so to the total.
    • 2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, chapter 1, in The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Henry Holt and Company:
      At the time of my visit, EVACC was down to just one Rabbs' Frog, so the possibility of saving even a single, Noachian pair had obviously passed.
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Etymology 2[edit]

From Noachis +‎ -ian (after Etymology 1, above).

Adjective[edit]

Noachian (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to the earliest Martian geological time period characterized by large craters. [from 20th c.]

Noun[edit]

Noachian (uncountable)

  1. The Noachian geological period. [from 20th c.]

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