Ordovician

Meaning of Ordovician

adjective
  1. relating to or denoting the second period of the Palaeozoic era, between the Cambrian and Silurian periods.
    fossils found in Cambrian and Ordovician rocks
noun, singular proper noun
  1. the second period of the Palaeozoic era, between the Cambrian and Silurian periods, or the system of rocks deposited during it.
    these are mobile predators that have a fossil record reaching back to the Ordovician

late 19th century: from Ordovices, the Latin name of an ancient British tribe in North Wales, + -ian.

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Hyphenation of Ordovician

Or-dovi-cian

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
  • Ordovician is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

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