Meanings
Noachian1
- not comparablePertaining to Noah or his time.First known use 17th c.
The victims of the Noachian flood would add another 20 million or so to the total.
2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 132 more examples
At the next meeting he was back on a geological topic illustrated by maps, diagrams and specimens, and the following year he spoke on "The Noachian Deluge, universal with regard to man, but very restricted with regard to the earth"[.]
1977, K.M. Elizabeth Murray, Caught in the Web of Words, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 47At the time of my visit, EVACC was down to just one Rabbs' Frog, so the possibility of saving even a single, Noachian pair had obviously passed.
2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, chapter 1, in The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Henry Holt and Company
Noachian2
- not comparablePertaining to the earliest Martian geological time period characterized by large craters.First known use 20th c.
- The Noachian geological period.First known use 20th c.
Origin
Noachian · adjective, proper noun
From Latin Noachis + -ian (after Etymology 1, above).
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