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paleozoic

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for paleozoic.

Editorial note

Another problem is the sun is significantly brighter now than it was during the Paleozoic era.

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Quick take

(geology) The Paleozoic era.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of paleozoic gathered in one view.

noun

(geology) The Paleozoic era.

adjective

Alternative form of Paleozoic. [(geology) Of a geologic era within the Phanerozoic eon that comprises the Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous and Permian periods from about 542 to 250 million years ago, from the age of trilobites to that of reptiles.]

adjective

(geology) Of a geologic era within the Phanerozoic eon that comprises the Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous and Permian periods from about 542 to 250 million years ago, from the age of trilobites to that of reptiles.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for paleozoic.

noun

(geology) The Paleozoic era.

adjective

Alternative form of Paleozoic. [(geology) Of a geologic era within the Phanerozoic eon that comprises the Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous and Permian periods from about 542 to 250 million years ago, from the age of trilobites to that of reptiles.]

adjective

(geology) Of a geologic era within the Phanerozoic eon that comprises the Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous and Permian periods from about 542 to 250 million years ago, from the age of trilobites to that of reptiles.

Example sentences

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Another problem is the sun is significantly brighter now than it was during the Paleozoic era.

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The Paleozoic peak in coal deposition was not due to white rot fungi evolution lagging behind lignin evolution.

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Well this article is over 4 years old, which is positively Paleozoic in language development terms.

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It was bad luck for the Paleozoic world that this massive mantle plume came up in perhaps the worst possible place.

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The current crop of LLMs is like Paleozoic megafauna, or like Egyptian Pyramids.

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You're confusing the late Paleozoic for the late Mesozoic.

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I enjoyed this book about the Carboniferous and the late Paleozoic ice ages.

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--- If you want to read about some really wild stuff, look up the Late Paleozoic era in the Carboniferous period.

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PS The Paleozoic began with the Cambrian explosion 541 million year ago, that's quite a long timespan with intelligent life (not a technical civilization, however) even in galactic timescales.

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Scientists know that dragonflies with wing spans as wide as a hawk's and cockroaches big enough to take on house cats lived during the Paleozoic era (245-570 million years ago).

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It's very, very simple: at the beginning of the Paleozoic era, atmospheric carbon was 20x higher than today, a level that the current biosphere cannot survive in.

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Anyhow it's bold to claim that there are no linux window managers to rival win8, linux is like the paleozoic of desktop interfaces.

Quote examples

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(Carboniferous = Mississippian + Pennsylvanian.) An image search for "Paleozoic and Mesozoic amphibians and reptiles" may also be gratifying.

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I trained as an artist, way back in the Paleozoic Era, and that gives me "airs" about things like graphic design, and data presentation.

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> Equisetum is a "living fossil", the only living genus of the entire subclass Equisetidae, which for over 100 million years was much more diverse and dominated the understorey of late Paleozoic forests.

Proper noun examples

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In fact, suspiciously, only a small percentage of what exists today is assumed to have been formed in the Paleozoic.

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And that our fossil fuels were not formed during any part of the Mesozoic; they were formed during the Carboniferous, which is part of the Paleozoic, right?

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The reason we don't have fossil fuels going back further than the Palezoic isn't because a far-past civilization may have depleted earlier stores, but because the types of organisms that eventually create fossil fuels didn't exist at a large enough scale until the Carboniferous period, which occurred in the late Paleozoic.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use paleozoic in a sentence?

Another problem is the sun is significantly brighter now than it was during the Paleozoic era.

What does paleozoic mean?

(geology) The Paleozoic era.

What part of speech is paleozoic?

paleozoic is commonly used as noun, adjective.