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Cambrian   /kˈæmbriən/   Listen
Cambrian

noun
1.
From 544 million to about 500 million years ago; marine invertebrates.  Synonym: Cambrian period.
2.
A native or resident of Wales.  Synonyms: Cymry, Welsh, Welshman.



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"Cambrian" Quotes from Famous Books



... circle itself forming the fourth; this being evidently the place where the Druids who presided had their station; or where the more sacred and important part of the rites and ceremonies (whatever they may have been) were performed. All this is as perfect at this day as when the Cambrian bards, according to the custom of their ancient order, described by my old acquaintances, the living members of the Chair of Glamorgan, met ...
— Colloquies on Society • Robert Southey

... have been due to secondary causes, like those determining the birth and death of the individual. When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Cambrian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled. Judging from the past, we may safely infer that not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness ...
— The World's Greatest Books - Volume 15 - Science • Various



Words linked to "Cambrian" :   European, Cymru, Cambrian Mountains, Welshman, Wales, Paleozoic, Cambria, Paleozoic era, welsh, Cymry, geological period, period



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