Meaning | Any period of time during which glaciers covered a large part of the earth's surface. |
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Example | "the most recent ice age was during the Pleistocene" |
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Synonyms | glacial period, glacial epoch |
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Part of | prehistory, prehistoric culture | The time during the development of human culture before the appearance of the written word |
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Broader | period, geological period | A unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed |
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Spanish | época glacial, glaciación, periodo glacial, período glacial |
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Catalan | època glacial, període glacial |
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