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Definition of Cambrian

1. Noun. From 544 million to about 500 million years ago; marine invertebrates.

2. Adjective. Of or relating to or characteristic of Wales or its people or their language. "Welsh syntax"

3. Noun. A native or resident of Wales.

Definition of Cambrian

1. a. Of or pertaining to Cambria or Wales.

2. n. A native of Cambria or Wales.

Definition of Cambrian

1. Adjective. (geology) of a geologic period within the Paleozoic era; comprises lower, middle and Furongian epochs from about 542 to 490 million years ago ¹

2. Adjective. of, or relating to Wales ¹

3. Noun. (geology) the Cambrian period ¹

4. Noun. a Welsh person ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cambrian

Cambarus Camberwell beauties Camberwell beauty Cambodia Cambodian Cambodian accessories Cambodian accessory Cambodian capital Cambodian monetary unit Cambodianness

Cambodians Camboj Cambozola Cambria Cambrian (current term) Cambrian period Cambrians Cambridge Cambridge University Cambridge blue

Cambro- Cambro-Briton Cambro-Britons Cambs Cambyses Camden Camdenite Camdenites

Literary usage of Cambrian

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Text-book of Geology: For Use in Universities, Colleges, Schools of by Louis Valentine Pirsson, Charles Schuchert (1915)
"The term, however, was intended to apply to what is now called the Ordo- vician period, the one following the Cambrian, and although Sedg- wick often ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Here the Cambrian system is only distinguished rly on the eastern side, ... The Cambrian system is represented in the Salt Range of India by tbe Neo- bolus ..."

3. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1906)
"-would give the maximum area covered by the Cambrian seas, for the Cambrian formations were, so far as known, laid down on the floor of the sea. ..."

4. Elements of Geology: A Text-book for Colleges and for the General Reader by Joseph Le Conte (1903)
"Our knowledge of the pre-Cambrian rocks is too imperfect to allow us to speak confidently. ... The name Cambrian was given by Sedgwick to the lower part. ..."

5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1887)
"the remarkable Cambrian and pre-Cambrian rocks of the Wrekin; Birmingham geologists themselves have quite recently made several startling discoveries of ..."

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