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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pleistocene \Pleis"to*cene\, a. [Gr. ? most + ? new.] (Geol.)
Of or pertaining to the epoch, or the deposits, following the
Tertiary, and immediately preceding man. -- n. The
Pleistocene epoch, or deposits.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
Pleistocene
n : from 11 thousand to 2 millions years ago; extensive
glaciation of N hemisphere; time of human evolution [syn:
{Pleistocene}, {Pleistocene epoch}, {Glacial epoch}]
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