English Explanatory Dictionary

Homogocene

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The current ecological era marked by anthropogenic biotic homogenization, having begun c. 1500 CE.

Word forms

Homogocene Homogenocene

Etymology

Coined by American ornithologist and ecologist Gordon Orians, apparently from homogenous + -cene.

Related words

New Pangaea
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