(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 2:03:50

Pleis"to*cene (?), a. [Gr. most + new.] Geol.

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

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n.

The Pleistocene epoch, or deposits.

 

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