Paleocene
Meaning of Paleocene
- relating to or denoting the earliest epoch of the Tertiary period, between the Cretaceous period and the Eocene epoch.
these footprints are found in an exposure of a rock formation that contains no Palaeocene fossils
- the earliest epoch of the Tertiary period, between the Cretaceous period and the Eocene, or the system of rocks deposited during it.
in the early Palaeocene, dense forests extended to higher latitudes
late 19th century: from palaeo- + Greek kainos ‘new’.
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Hyphenation of Paleocene
Pa-le-ocene
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- Paleocene is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
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