Ediacaran

名词 n. 形容词 adj. 专有名词
中文释义
英 /ɛdiˈakəɹən/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An organism that lived in the Ediacaran period.
    — Many Ediacarans seem to have lived quiet lives of very limited mobility on the bottom of the sea.
形容词 adj.
  1. Of a geologic period within the Neoproterozoic era from about 620 to 542 million years ago. not-comparable
    — The widespread discoveries of fossil remains of Ediacaran aspect have generated continued excitement in respect of their possible evolutionary significance, and in terms of recent surrealistic interpretations of their morphology and inferred interrelationships (Pflug, 1970a,b, 1972a,b; Fedonkin, 1985 a,b; Gould, 1984, 1985; Seilacher, 1984, 1985, 1989; McMenamin, 1986; and Bergstrom, 1989, 1990), a reexamination of the actual fossil material is timely.
专有名词
  1. The Ediacaran period.
    — Recently, in 2004, a new geological period, the Ediacaran, was formally added to the time scale. It immediately precedes the Cambrian period, and therefore lies within the Proterozoic.

词形变化

Ediacarans plural

词源

词源 1
From Ediacara + -an. After the Ediacara Hills in South Australia; from an Australian Aboriginal term (details disputed). See Ediacara Hills on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
词源 2
From Ediacara + -an. After the Ediacara Hills in South Australia; from an Australian Aboriginal term (details disputed). See Ediacara Hills on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
词源 3
From Ediacara + -an. After the Ediacara Hills in South Australia; from an Australian Aboriginal term (details disputed). See Ediacara Hills on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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