(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 1:24:17

Ne"o*cene (?), a. [Neo- + Gr. new.] Geol.

More recent than the Eocene, that is, including both the Miocene and Pliocene divisions of the Tertiary.

 

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