English words starting with neog

Meanings of Neogaea:

proper noun

A zoogeographical area comprising the neotropical region.

Meanings of Neogaean:

adjective

Relating to or characteristic of the zoogeographical area of neogaea.

Meanings of Neogene:

adjective

Relating to or denoting the later division of the tertiary period, comprising the miocene and pliocene epochs.

Usage examples:

Neogene volcanic ash deposits

noun

The later division of the tertiary period, comprising the miocene and pliocene epochs, or the system of rocks deposited during it.

Usage examples:

South america experienced a prolonged period of mountain-building during the neogene

Meanings of Neogenesis:

noun

Regeneration or renewed formation of a previously formed substance, tissue, cell type, structure, etc.

Meanings of Neogenetic:

adjective

Of, relating to, or resulting from neogenesis.

Meanings of Neognathous:

adjective

Designating the type of palate and jaw characteristic of nearly all living and some fossil birds (forming the superorder neognathae), in which, among other features, the vomers are usually small and completely fused.

Meanings of Neogrammarian:

noun

A member of a group of 19th-century german scholars who, having noticed that sound changes in language are regular and that therefore lost word forms can be reconstructed, postulated the forms of entire lost languages such as proto-indo-european by the comparison of related forms in existing languages.

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What we may think of as the old, positivist pursuit of diachronic sound change was, in the last thi…