devonian
IPA: dɪvˈoʊniʌn
Root Word: Devonian
noun
- (chiefly dated) A native or inhabitant of the English region of Devon.
- (geology) the Devonian period
adjective
- (geology) of a geologic period within the Paleozoic era; comprises lower, middle and upper epochs from about 415 to 360 million years ago
- (chiefly dated) Of or pertaining to the English region of Devon.
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Examples of "devonian" in Sentences
- He took me down to devonian gardens, its was so nice.
- Presumably synapsids, giant devonian centipedes, and pterosaurs as well; the 99% of life now extinct.
- I think I do the devonian method, only because the jam doesn't spread as well once the cream is there.
- “This fish belongs to an extinct family, of which only fossil traces are found in the devonian formations.”
- "This fish belongs to an extinct family, of which only fossil traces are found in the devonian formations."
- The Goniatites, of the tribe of Ammonites, * a are manifested in the transition chalk, in the graywacke of the devonian periods, and even in the latest silurian formations.
- The so-called 'transition rocks', in the two divisions of upper and lower graywacke (silurian and devonian systems), the latter being formerly designated as old red sandstone.
- To define oneself by geography devonian/londoner/geordie was a meaningful definition when most people were born, lived and died in the same county, and probably communicated in a certain dialect.
- I am glad to have paul and his smart-assed comments in my notes. i love Paul. (shor-t) i remember back in the day when I had a crush on Paul, and he had long flowing locks, we went to devonian gardens, and he gave me a leather wrist cuff, only to ASK FOR IT BACK mere weeks (maybe days?!) later! man.
- Types of the sedimentary structures considered in their most simple and general characters; silurian and devonian formations (formerly known as rocks of transition); the lower trias (mountain limestone, coal measures, together with 'todilegende' and zechstein); the upper trias (butter sandstone, muschelkalk, and keuper);
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