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

1 sense of pliocene epoch

Sense 1
Pliocene, Pliocene epoch -- (from 13 million to 2 million years ago; growth of mountains; cooling of climate; more and larger mammals)
       INSTANCE OF=> epoch -- (a unit of geological time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself divided into ages)