ALL meanings of miocene
Mi·o·cene
M m - adjective miocene noting or pertaining to an epoch of the Tertiary Period, occurring from 25 to 10 million years ago, when grazing mammals became widespread. 1
- noun miocene the Miocene Epoch or Series. 1
- adjective miocene of, denoting, or formed in the fourth epoch of the Tertiary period, between the Oligocene and Pliocene epochs, which lasted for 19 million years 0
- adjective miocene designating or of the first geologic epoch of the Neogene, characterized by the joining of what are now Africa, Arabia, and Eurasia and the development of manlike apes 0