Tertiary Synonyms

tûr'shē-ĕr'ē

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Synonyms for Tertiary

third
Preceded by two others in a series; 3d or 3rd
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3rd
Abbreviation of third.
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Tertiary period
from 63 million to 2 million years ago
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Words Related to Tertiary

third order
of a Third Order
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primary
The definition of primary is something that is the most important, among the most important, something that comes early in development or that is original and not derived from something else.
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secondary
Possessing some quality, or having been subject to some operation (as substitution), in the second degree; as, a secondary salt, a secondary amine, etc. Compare primary.
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post-secondary
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post-compulsory
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Tertiary Sentence Examples

  • The Tertiary deposits cover the whole of the central depression, where they are associated with extensive flows of lava and beds of volcanic ash.

  • The tertiary glycols are known as pinacones and are formed on the reduction of ketones with sodium amalgam.

  • Gruidae, cranes, cosmopolitan, allied Phororhacos, Tertiary of Argentina.

  • The Vicksburg formation lies next in order south-west, in a narrow strip of fairly regular width which alone of the Tertiary formations runs as far west as the Mississippi River; it is probably nowhere more than 110 ft.

  • Although in late Tertiary times widely spread over southern Europe and India, giraffes are now confined to Africa south of the Sahara.

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