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English

Adjective

Of or pertaining to the first part of the Cenozoic era when modern flora and mammals appeared

Translations

Italian: terziario

Noun

The first part of the Cenozoic era when modern flora and mammals appeared

Translations

Italian: terziario

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Tertiary \Ter"ti*a*ry\, a. [L. tertiarius containing a third
part, fr. tertius third: cf. F. tertiaire. See Tierce.]
1. Being of the third formation, order, or rank; third; as, a
tertiary use of a word. --Trench.
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2. (Chem.) Possessing some quality in the third degree;
having been subjected to the substitution of three atoms
or radicals; as, a tertiary alcohol, amine, or salt. Cf.
Primary, and Secondary.
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3. (Geol.) Later than, or subsequent to, the Secondary.
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4. (Zool.) Growing on the innermost joint of a bird's wing;
tertial; -- said of quills.
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Tertiary age. (Geol.) See under Age, 8.

Tertiary color, a color produced by the mixture of two
secondaries. "The so-called tertiary colors are citrine,
russet, and olive." --Fairholt.

Tertiary period. (Geol.)
(a) The first period of the age of mammals, or of the
Cenozoic era.
(b) The rock formation of that period; -- called also
Tertiary formation. See the Chart of Geology.

Tertiary syphilis (Med.), the third and last stage of
syphilis, in which it invades the bones and internal
organs.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Tertiary \Ter"ti*a*ry\, n.; pl. Tertiaries.
1. (R. C. Ch.) A member of the Third Order in any monastic
system; as, the Franciscan tertiaries; the Dominican
tertiaries; the Carmelite tertiaries. See Third Order,
under Third. --Addis & Arnold.
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2. (Geol.) The Tertiary era, period, or formation.
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3. (Zool.) One of the quill feathers which are borne upon the
basal joint of the wing of a bird. See Illust. of Bird.
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WordNet Tertiary
adj : coming next after the second and just before the fourth in
position [syn: third, 3rd]
n : from 63 million to 2 million years ago [syn: {Tertiary
period}]

Moby Dictionary
Maxwell triangle , Munsell scale , chromatic circle ,
chromatic spectrum , chromaticity diagram , color circle ,
color cycle , color index , color mixture curve , color solid ,
color spectrum , color system , color triangle , complementary color ,
covert , demitint , feather , feathers , full color ,
fundamental colors , hackle , half tint , halftone , hue cycle , mail ,
metamer , monochrome , plumage , primary , primary color , pure color ,
secondary , secondary color , solar spectrum , spectral color ,
spectrum , spectrum color , speculum , tertiary color , third