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devonian

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Adjective, Noun

HYPHEN

De=vo=ni=an

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun devonian has 1 sense

devonian(n = noun.time) age of fishes, devonian period - from 405 million to 345 million years ago; preponderance of fishes and appearance of amphibians and ammonites;

is a part of paleozoic, paleozoic era

is a kind of geological period, period

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

devonian, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 of or relating to Devon in SW England.
2 Geol. of or relating to the fourth period of the Palaeozoic era with evidence of the first amphibians and tree forests.

Usage

Cf. Appendix II.
--n.
1 this period or system.
2 a native of Devon.

Etymology

med.L Devonia Devonshire

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devonian

Oldness

N oldness, age, antiquity, cobwebs of antiquity, maturity, decline, decay, senility, seniority, eldership, primogeniture, archaism, thing of the past, relic of the past, megatherium, Sanskrit, tradition, prescription, custom, immemorial usage, common law, old, ancient, antique, of long standing, time-honored, venerable, elder, eldest, firstborn, prime, primitive, primeval, primigenous, paleolontological, paleontologic, paleoanthropological, paleoanthropic, paleolithic, primordial, primordinate, aboriginal, diluvian, antediluvian, protohistoric, prehistoric, antebellum, colonial, precolumbian, patriarchal, preadamite, paleocrystic, fossil, paleozoolical, paleozoic, preglacial, antemundane, archaic, classic, medieval, Pre-Raphaelite, ancestral, black-letter, immemorial, traditional, prescriptive, customary, whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contr, inveterate, rooted, antiquated, of other times, rococo, of the old school, after-age, obsolete, out of date, out of fashion, out of it, stale, old-fashioned, behind the age, old-world, exploded, gone out, gone by, passe, run out, senile, time worn, crumbling, secondhand, old as the hills, old as Methuselah, old as Adam, old as history, Archeozoic, Proterozoic, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic, Precambrian, Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Mississippian, Pennsylvanian, Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, Tertiary, Paleogene, Neocene, Quaternary, Paleocene, Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene, Pliocene, Pleistocene, Recent, since the world was made, since the year one, since the days of Methuselah, vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.