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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
Pliocene
 
SYLLABICATION:Pli·o·cene
PRONUNCIATION:  pl-sn
ADJECTIVE: Of or belonging to the geologic time, rock series, or sedimentary deposits of the last epoch of the Tertiary Period, characterized by the appearance of distinctly modern animals. See table at geologic time.
NOUN: The Pliocene Epoch or its system of deposits.
ETYMOLOGY:Greek plein, more; see pel-1 in Appendix I + –cene.
 
 
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