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Of or pertaining to the epoch, or the deposits, following the Tertiary, and immediately preceding man.

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  1. a. Of or pertaining to the epoch, or the deposits, following the Tertiary, and immediately preceding man.
  2. n. The Pleistocene epoch, or deposits.
  3. Of or pertaining to the epoch, or the deposits, following the Tertiary, and immediately preceding man. -- n. The Pleistocene epoch, or deposits.
  4. Of or pertaining to the epoch, or the deposits, following theTertiary, and immediately preceding man.-- n.
  5. j:100 n. from two million to 11 thousand years ago; extensive glaciation of the northern hemisphere; the time of human evolution