Word Meanings - PRETERTIARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Earlier than Tertiary.

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• TERTIARY
  Possessing some quality in the third degree; having been subjected to the substitution of three atoms or radicals; as, a tertiary alcohol, amine, or salt. Cf. Primary, and Secondary. (more info) 1. Being of the third formation, order, or rank;
• POSTTERTIARY
  Following, or more recent than, the Tertiary; Quaternary.
• PRETERTIARY
  Earlier than Tertiary.