English Explanatory Dictionary

Zanclean

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A geological subdivision, the earliest age of the Pliocene epoch.

Word forms

Zanclean

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ζάγκλη (Zánklē), the name originally given to the city of Messina, Sicily, by its ancient Greek founders. (Compare Messinian, the preceding age.)

Derived words

Zanclean flood
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