Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun pleistocene_epoch

1 sense of pleistocene epoch

Sense 1
Pleistocene, Pleistocene epoch, Glacial epoch -- (from two million to 11 thousand years ago; extensive glaciation of the northern hemisphere; the time of human evolution)
       INSTANCE OF=> epoch -- (a unit of geological time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself divided into ages)