Meanings
nounquaternarist (plural quaternarists)
plural quaternarists · alternative Quaternarist
- biologyA specialist in the Quaternary period.
Indeed, in recent years, the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) "abolished" the Quaternary, according to riled quaternarists.
2008 January 25, Richard A. Kerr, “A Time War Over the Period We Live In”, in Science, 319(5862), page 402
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