Tertiary

See also: tertiary

English

Etymology

See tertiary.

Adjective

Tertiary (not comparable)

1. (geology) Of or pertaining to the first part of the Cenozoic era when modern flora and mammals appeared.

Derived terms

• Arcto-Tertiary Geoflora
• post-Tertiary

Translations

of the first part of the Cenozoic era

• Catalan: terciari m, terciària f
• Finnish: tertiäärikautinen, tertiäärinen (fi)
• Georgian: მესამეული (mesameuli)
• Italian: terziario (it)

Proper noun

Tertiary

1. (geology) The first part of the Cenozoic era when modern flora and mammals appeared.
   • 1966 October, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume I, New York, N.Y.; London: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 4:

     […] a continental northern Alaskan element, including a series of endemic species and disjuncts that have survived the Pleistocene glaciation in northern Alaska and thus represent relicts of the much warmer Tertiary […]

Translations

first part of the Cenozoic era

• Catalan: terciari m
• Finnish: tertiäärikausi (fi)
• French: Tertiaire (fr) m
• Georgian: მესამეული სისტემა (mesameuli sisṭema), მესამეული პერიოდი (mesameuli ṗeriodi)
• German: Tertiär (de) n
• Hungarian: harmadkor (hu), harmadidőszak (hu)
• Italian: terziario (it)
• Japanese: 第三紀 (ja) (daisanki)
• Polish: trzeciorzęd (pl) m
• Swedish: tertiär (sv)
• Vietnamese: kỉ Đệ Tam