m 3 i 1 o 1 c 3 e 1 n 1 e 1
7 letters · 11 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun from 25 million to 13 million years ago; appearance of grazing mammals
originFrom Ancient Greek μείων (meíōn, “less”) + καινός (kainós, “new”). Coined by English polymath William Whewell in 1831 for Charles Lyell, who introduced it in 1833 in his book Principles of Geology. By surface analysis, meio- + -cene.
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