English Explanatory Dictionary

Pyrocene

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The period of the Holocene/Anthropocene in which climate change causes more frequent and intense wildfires.

Word forms

Pyrocene

Etymology

From pyro- + -cene, coined by American academic Stephen J. Pyne in 2016.

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