in reference to the second epoch of the Tertiary Period, 1831, from eo- "earliest" + Latinized form of Greek kainos "new" (see recent). Coined in English (along with Miocene and Pliocene) by the Rev. William Whewell (1794-1866), English polymath, and meant as "the dawn of the recent." As a noun from 1851.
雙語例句
1. The funnel - shaped self - potential curve of the Eocene sands is well marked.
始新統(tǒng)砂層的 漏斗形 自然電位曲線形態(tài)很明顯.
來自辭典例句
2. These showed an evolution of increasing diversity through to the Eocene.
一直到始新世,生物多樣性都在不斷地提高.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
3. Those correspond to Quaternary , Pliocene , Upper Miocene, Lower Miocene and Eocene respectively.