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Eocene (adj.)
in reference to the second epoch of the Tertiary Period, coined in English 1831, from
eo-
+ Greek
kainos
"new" (see
recent
); along with
Miocene
and
Pliocene
, by the Rev. William Whewell (1794-1866), English polymath.
