Cambrian
pronunciation
How to pronounce Cambrian in British English:
UK [ˈkæmbriən]
How to pronounce Cambrian in American English:
US [ˈkæmbriən]
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- Noun:
- from 544 million to about 500 million years ago; marine invertebrates
- a native or resident of Wales
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- Adjective:
- of or relating to or characteristic of Wales or its people or their language
Word Origin
- Cambrian (adj.)
- 1650s, "from or of Wales or the Welsh," from Cambria, variant of Cumbria, Latinized derivation of Cymry, the name of the Welsh for themselves, from Old Celtic Combroges "compatriots." Geological sense (of rocks first studied in Wales and Cumberland) is from 1836.
Example
- 1. One of the greatest mysteries of the history of life is the cambrian explosion .
- 2. During the cambrian explosion , major paradigm shifts took only tens of millions of years .
- 3. The ediacaran fossil record thus stretches the origins of animals to well before the cambrian explosion .
- 4. During the cambrian period , 500 million years ago , worm-like creatures were evolving into fish-like creatures .
- 5. Animals - including human beings - trace their origins back to the oceans of the cambrian period more than half a billion years ago when the first multicellular organisms that fed exclusively on onther living things appeared .