Tertiary period and Tertiary
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Tertiary period
Tertiary period noun - From 63 million to 2 million years ago.
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Tertiary and tertiary period are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Tertiary" instead a noun phrase "Tertiary period".
Tertiary
Tertiary adjective - Coming next after the second and just before the fourth in position.
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Tertiary period and tertiary are semantically related. You can use "Tertiary period" instead a noun "Tertiary".
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