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/kwˈɑtərnˌɛri/ Listen

adjective

Quaternary adj.

Consisting of four; by fours, or in sets of four.

(Geol.) Later than, or subsequent to, the Tertiary; Post-tertiary; as, the Quaternary age, or Age of man.

noun

Quaternary n.

The number four.

(Geol.) The Quaternary age, era, or formation. See the Chart of Geology.

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Etymology of 'Quaternary'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Quaternary" Quotes from Famous Books

... has lived long on the earth, familiar as he was with the mammoth and the cave-bear; he lived at least as early as the geological period known as the Quaternary. ...

— History Of Ancient Civilization • Charles Seignobos

... hast seen the stately mastodon Roam at his will o'er earth's prolific plains, And the unwieldy megatherium Dragging his cumbrous, disproportioned weight Through quaternary marsh and stagnant fen; Or watched the ichthyosaurus plow the seas, Churning the waters till the glistening foam Rode on the greenish undulating waves; And huge saurian and reptilian shapes Amphibious and pelagic, ...

— Mountain idylls, and Other Poems • Alfred Castner King

... in this relation towards the rest of the organism. Glance first at the distribution of alimentary substances among the different elements of the living body. These substances fall into two classes, one the quaternary or albuminoid, the other the ternary, including the carbohydrates and the fats. The albuminoids are properly plastic, destined to repair the tissues—although, owing to the carbon they contain, they are capable of providing energy on occasion. But the function of supplying ...

— Creative Evolution • Henri Bergson

... The other quaternary compounds performing the same functions as albumen—the gluten of cereals, the fibrin of blood, the casein of cheese and the legumin of chickpeas—undergo a similar modification, in varying degrees. Fed, from the moment of leaving the egg, on any one of these substances, the worms thrive very ...

— The Life of the Fly - With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters of Autobiography • J. Henri Fabre

... opposed by nature to the perturbing causes which seek to alter her delicate mechanism. Under certain unfavourable conditions, cold or poor soil, the common oak will develop characteristics of the oak of the Quaternary period. The dog left to run wild in the forest will in a few generations revert to the type of his original wolf-like progenitor, and the cultivated garden roses when neglected show a tendency to reassume ...

— Criminal Man - According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso • Gina Lombroso-Ferrero

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