Noachian

English Pronunciation en /nəʊˈeɪkɪən/ UK en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Noachian.wav Southern England Etymology 1 en :af Noach<t:variant of Noah> -ian + 1 Adjective - Pertaining to Noah or his time. from 17th c. en 1977 K.M. Elizabeth Murray Caught in the Web of Words Oxford University Press Oxford 47 At the next meeting he was back on a geological topic illustrated by maps, diagrams and specimens, and the following year he spoke on "The Noachian Deluge, universal with regard to man, but very restricted with regard to the earth"[.] en 2011 w:Steven Pinker The Better Angels of Our Nature 13 Penguin 2012 The victims of the Noachian flood would add another 20 million or so to the total. en The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History 2014 w:Elizabeth Kolbert Henry Holt and Company 1 At the time of my visit, EVACC was down to just one Rabbs' Frog, so the possibility of saving even a single, Noachian pair had obviously passed. Alternative forms en Noahian Noahtic Related terms en Noahide, en Noahite Etymology 2 From en la:Noachis ian (after Etymology 1, above). Adjective - Pertaining to the earliest Martian geological time period characterized by large craters. from 20th c. Proper noun 1 The Noachian geological period. from 20th c. See also en Hesperian en Amazonian