Synonyms for quaternary
EXAMPLES FROM THE WEB FOR QUATERNARY
“Quartenary” was amended to “Quaternary” in the first paragraph.
They are referred to the dawn of the Quaternary or Pleistocene period.
In Europe it has appeared since the neolithic age, after the quaternary period.
It may have been in the Tertiary, the Quaternary, or not until the Recent period.
How does this affect the most characteristic of all Quaternary forms, that of man?
Does pre-glacial mean Pliocene, or is it included in the Quaternary?
Lastly, only in the Quaternary comes the genus Equus, or true horse.
Ternary, and quaternary, consist of three and four elements.
The flora itself at the quaternary age was of extreme vigor.
Normal gray is black and white mixed, but quaternary colors are also called grays, or colors of the dull or neutral scale.
WORD ORIGIN
early 15c., "consisting of four parts," from Latin quaternarius "of four each, containing four," from quaterni "four each, by fours," from quater "four times," related to quattuor "four" (see four). Also as a noun, "the number four" (mid-15c.), from Latin quaternarius.
In geological sense, attested from 1843 in English, proposed 1829 by French geologist Jules Pierre François Stanislas Desnoyers (1800-1887) as name for "the fourth great epoch of geological time," but because it comprises only the age of man, and the other epochs are many hundred times longer, not all accepted it.