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- Pliocene - a. - Of, pertaining to, or characterizing, the most recent division of the Tertiary age.
- Pliocene - n. - The Pliocene period or deposits.
- Pliohippus - n. - An extinct genus of horses from the Pliocene deposits. Each foot had a single toe (or hoof), as in the common horse.
- Subapennine - a. - Under, or at the foot of, the Apennine mountains; -- applied, in geology, to a series of Tertiary strata of the older Pliocene period.
- Neocene - a. - More recent than the Eocene, that is, including both the Miocene and Pliocene divisions of the Tertiary.
- Nototherium - n. - An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
- Pliocene - n. - The Pliocene period or deposits.