Go to MSN Homeencarta®
Dictionary
Find
in
Dictionary
Thesaurus
Translations
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
Click to move up the list of words
paleontography
paleontol.
paleontology
paleopathology
Paleosiberian
Paleozoic
paleozoology
Palermo
Palestine
palestra
palette
palette knife
palfrey
Pali
pali
palimony
palimpsest
Click to move down the list of words
Also available:

World English Dictionary
Dictionnaire Français

Paleogene
Pa·le·o·gene [ páylee ə jn ]


noun 
Definition:
 
early Tertiary period: the early part of the Tertiary period of geologic time, comprising the Paleocene, Eocene, and Oligocene epochs, 65 million to 23 million years ago

Pa·le·o·gene adjective
Encarta® World English Dictionary [North American Edition] © & (P)2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Developed for Microsoft by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
Advertisement
© 2009 Microsoft