SILURIAN

a. n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Of or pertaining to the country of the ancient Silures; -- a term applied to the earliest of the Paleozoic eras, and also to the strata of the era, because most plainly developed in that country.

2.
n.

The Silurian age.


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