geological period
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a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed
ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
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| 1 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | geological era |
| 1 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | epoch |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | geological time |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | ice age |
| 1 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Quaternary |
| 1 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Tertiary |
| 1 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Cretaceous |
| 1 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Jurassic |
| 1 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Triassic |
| 1 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Permian |
| 1 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Carboniferous |
| 1 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Pennsylvanian |
| 1 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Mississippian |
| 1 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Devonian |
| 1 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Silurian |
| 1 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Ordovician |
| 1 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Cambrian |