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Tertiary

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Meaning

Adj

●
Of
or order; subsequent.
●
In Chemistry & Three:
Possessing some quality in the
; especially having been
to the
of three
or radicals.
●
In Ornithology:
Of
:
the
of a bird's
; tertial.
●
In Geology:
Of or
to the first part of the Cenozoic
when
and
appeared.

Noun

●
Any
considered to be of
order.
●
A
colour.
●
In Geology & Three:
Something from the Tertiary Period (the
for the
from 65
to 2.58
years ago).
●
In Ornithology:
A
; a tertial.
●
In Military, Nuclear warfare & Three:
A large
in some
(resembling a greatly-enlarged
) which is
by the
of the
until
of
, in much the same
as the
is
by the
, and which can
the
of
of many
or even
of
, and likely even
; not used in
due to a
focus on the
use of sub-megaton
, the
of
a
, and the
of
whose
would
the use of a three-stage weapon.
●
In Roman Catholicism & Three:
A
of a Roman Catholic
order; a
who
in activities
to those
in by
and women who take
(respectively the first and second
), and who may
some
of an order's
such as a scapular.

Name

●
The first part of the Cenozoic
when
and
appeared.
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