cambrian
Speech parts
1. cambrian - Noun
2. cambrian - Adjective
3. Cambrian - Proper noun
Meaning
Of or pertaining to Cambria or Wales.
Of or pertaining to the lowest subdivision of the rocks of the Silurian or Molluscan age; -- sometimes described as inferior to the Silurian. It is named from its development in Cambria or Wales. See the Diagram under Geology.
A native of Cambria or Wales.
The Cambrian formation.
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
Hypernyms
Phrases with the word
Examples
When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Cambrian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled (emphasis, again, not Darwin's).
When you were a tadpole and I was a fish In the Paleozoic time, And side by side on the ebbing tide We sprawled through the ooze and slime, Or skittered with many a caudal flip Through the depths of the Cambrian fen, My heart was rife with the joy of life, For I loved you even then.
the Welsh coast
Welsh syntax
A Cambrian Heights family couldn't believe what they were seeing as a bunny stole the tasty carrot right out from under the nose of their snowman earlier this week.
Around 550 million years ago, on the boundary between the Ediacaran and Cambrian, the first group of cratons eventually fused again with Amazonia, West Africa and the Rio de la Plata cratons.