Associations to the word «Archean»

Wiktionary

ARCHEAN, adjective. Alternative form of Archaean
ARCHEAN, proper noun. Alternative form of Archaean

Dictionary definition

ARCHEAN, noun. The time from 3,800 million years to 2,500 million years ago; earth's crust formed; unicellular organisms are earliest forms of life.
ARCHEAN, adjective. Of or relating to the earliest known rocks formed during the Precambrian Eon.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope