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Definition of Devonian in English: Devonianadjective dɪˈvəʊnɪəndɛˈvəʊnɪəndəˈvoʊniən 1Relating to Devon. 德文郡的 Example sentencesExamples - Tucked away in Devonian hills as green as the heart of a lettuce is Dartington Hall, home of Dartington international summer school.
- Coming up in the world: The old Devonian seadog William Burroughs, second in command to Cadiz in 1587 and a ship's commander against the Armada the following year.
- I still had the handful of yoghurt from the photo shoot and even though the yoghurt had curdled, this congealed dairy product was a feast to these backward Devonian fooles!
- Of course, being Mr BW, the first thing he did on returning from our Devonian exploits last night was to wander round the garden.
2Geology
Relating to or denoting the fourth period of the Palaeozoic era, between the Silurian and Carboniferous periods. 〔地质〕泥盆纪的；泥盆系的 The Devonian period lasted from about 409 to 363 million years ago. During this period fish became abundant, the first amphibians evolved, and the first forests appeared Example sentencesExamples - Athyrids were most abundant during the Silurian and Devonian periods, but still remained common during the early Carboniferous, and even as late as the Permian.
- So far, only few biostratigraphically well-constrained isotopic ages constitute the geochronological framework of the Devonian period.
- The Early Triassic rifting episode followed the older Devonian and Carboniferous structural grains.
- Observations on the Silurian and Devonian systems of the United States, with descriptions of new organic remains.
- Although there are no outcrops of Devonian extrusive volcanic rocks in NW Scotland, they can be found in southern and central Scotland and the Orkney Islands.
- This complex was later involved in the collision of Siberia and Baltica and was the source of a substantial amount of intermediate to felsic volcanism during Ordovician through Devonian time.
- The normal fault that currently separates the Silurian basement south of Eyemouth from Devonian and Carboniferous rocks to the north may well correspond to and reactivate this tract-bounding structure.
- These can be found by the thousand in suitable Silurian and Devonian exposures; and they are the most common vertebrate microfossil in most Silurian sediments.
- In a general article on reef succession, Copper noted the role of stromatoporoids in the climax phase of Silurian and Devonian reefs.
- For example, the various Lower Palaeozoic and Devonian formations on the stable interior platform of North America have presented many problems of correlation largely because the different facies are diachronous.
- In the mangrove forests of the Andamans we have seen goggle-eyed mud skippers pull themselves out of the water, as the Devonian amphibians did, and sun their glistening bodies on the stilt roots of the wetland trees.
- Some 360 million years ago, at the end of the Devonian era, an evolutionary experiment was underway.
- The bedrock ranges in age from Precambrian to Mississippian, but Cambrian, Ordovician, and Devonian rocks predominate.
- It is composed of a number of imbricate thrust units involving Ordovician to Devonian sediments, volcanic rocks and ophiolites.
- Silurian and lower Devonian sedimentary successions are uncommon within the remnants of Gondwana.
- The upper boundary of the Centroiberica zone is not conformable with younger strata and Silurian and Devonian strata may be absent.
- Baltica collided with Avalonia and they subsequently collided with Laurentia to complete the Laurussian continent during Silurian and earliest Devonian times.
- Variably serpentinized Devonian mafic and ultramafic intrusive rocks occur in the western and northern parts of the map area.
- The significance of these other Silurian to early Devonian dates remains uncertain but large-scale lithospheric extension is the most likely cause.
- The plate tectonic model of Loeschke et al. invokes crustal rifting during the Ordovician and formation of a Silurian to Devonian ocean that underwent closure during the Devonian-Carboniferous.
noun dɪˈvəʊnɪəndɛˈvəʊnɪəndəˈvoʊniən 1A native or inhabitant of Devon. 德文郡人 Example sentencesExamples - The likeable Devonian, remember, had already made headlines of his own after a confrontation with abrasive Australian Quinten Hann at the end of his first-round win.
- The Devonians play their biggest Scottish show to date.
- They performed with gusto to almost thirty drunk Devonians.
- The impact of scientific rather than practical proposals has produced a fairly unworkable cocktail of measures which Devonians are calling a ‘complete shambles’.
2the DevonianGeology
The Devonian period or the system of rocks deposited during it. 〔地质〕泥盆纪；泥盆系
RhymesAberdonian, Amazonian, Apollonian, Babylonian, Baconian, Bostonian, Caledonian, Catalonian, Chalcedonian, Ciceronian, draconian, Estonian, Etonian, gorgonian, Ionian, Johnsonian, Laconian, Macedonian, Miltonian, Newtonian, Oregonian, Oxonian, Patagonian, Plutonian, Tennysonian, Tobagonian, Washingtonian Definition of Devonian in US English: Devonianadjectivedəˈvōnēəndəˈvoʊniən 1Relating to Devon. 德文郡的 Example sentencesExamples - Tucked away in Devonian hills as green as the heart of a lettuce is Dartington Hall, home of Dartington international summer school.
- Of course, being Mr BW, the first thing he did on returning from our Devonian exploits last night was to wander round the garden.
- I still had the handful of yoghurt from the photo shoot and even though the yoghurt had curdled, this congealed dairy product was a feast to these backward Devonian fooles!
- Coming up in the world: The old Devonian seadog William Burroughs, second in command to Cadiz in 1587 and a ship's commander against the Armada the following year.
2Geology
Relating to or denoting the fourth period of the Paleozoic era, between the Silurian and Carboniferous periods. 〔地质〕泥盆纪的；泥盆系的 The Devonian period lasted from about 409 million to 363 million years ago. During this period fish became abundant; the first amphibians evolved, and the first forests appeared Example sentencesExamples - So far, only few biostratigraphically well-constrained isotopic ages constitute the geochronological framework of the Devonian period.
- Variably serpentinized Devonian mafic and ultramafic intrusive rocks occur in the western and northern parts of the map area.
- Silurian and lower Devonian sedimentary successions are uncommon within the remnants of Gondwana.
- Although there are no outcrops of Devonian extrusive volcanic rocks in NW Scotland, they can be found in southern and central Scotland and the Orkney Islands.
- It is composed of a number of imbricate thrust units involving Ordovician to Devonian sediments, volcanic rocks and ophiolites.
- The upper boundary of the Centroiberica zone is not conformable with younger strata and Silurian and Devonian strata may be absent.
- Observations on the Silurian and Devonian systems of the United States, with descriptions of new organic remains.
- In a general article on reef succession, Copper noted the role of stromatoporoids in the climax phase of Silurian and Devonian reefs.
- The plate tectonic model of Loeschke et al. invokes crustal rifting during the Ordovician and formation of a Silurian to Devonian ocean that underwent closure during the Devonian-Carboniferous.
- These can be found by the thousand in suitable Silurian and Devonian exposures; and they are the most common vertebrate microfossil in most Silurian sediments.
- The Early Triassic rifting episode followed the older Devonian and Carboniferous structural grains.
- The bedrock ranges in age from Precambrian to Mississippian, but Cambrian, Ordovician, and Devonian rocks predominate.
- Some 360 million years ago, at the end of the Devonian era, an evolutionary experiment was underway.
- For example, the various Lower Palaeozoic and Devonian formations on the stable interior platform of North America have presented many problems of correlation largely because the different facies are diachronous.
- Baltica collided with Avalonia and they subsequently collided with Laurentia to complete the Laurussian continent during Silurian and earliest Devonian times.
- The significance of these other Silurian to early Devonian dates remains uncertain but large-scale lithospheric extension is the most likely cause.
- In the mangrove forests of the Andamans we have seen goggle-eyed mud skippers pull themselves out of the water, as the Devonian amphibians did, and sun their glistening bodies on the stilt roots of the wetland trees.
- Athyrids were most abundant during the Silurian and Devonian periods, but still remained common during the early Carboniferous, and even as late as the Permian.
- This complex was later involved in the collision of Siberia and Baltica and was the source of a substantial amount of intermediate to felsic volcanism during Ordovician through Devonian time.
- The normal fault that currently separates the Silurian basement south of Eyemouth from Devonian and Carboniferous rocks to the north may well correspond to and reactivate this tract-bounding structure.
noundəˈvōnēəndəˈvoʊniən 1A native or inhabitant of Devon. 德文郡人 Example sentencesExamples - They performed with gusto to almost thirty drunk Devonians.
- The Devonians play their biggest Scottish show to date.
- The impact of scientific rather than practical proposals has produced a fairly unworkable cocktail of measures which Devonians are calling a ‘complete shambles’.
- The likeable Devonian, remember, had already made headlines of his own after a confrontation with abrasive Australian Quinten Hann at the end of his first-round win.
2the DevonianGeology
The Devonian period or the system of rocks deposited during it. 〔地质〕泥盆纪；泥盆系
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