Noun glacial epoch has 2 senses
  1. ice age, glacial period, glacial epoch - any period of time during which glaciers covered a large part of the earth's surface; "the most recent ice age was during the Pleistocene"
    --1 is a kind of period, geological period
    --1 is a part of prehistory, prehistoric culture
  2. Pleistocene, Pleistocene epoch, Glacial epoch - from two million to 11 thousand years ago; extensive glaciation of the northern hemisphere; the time of human evolution
    --2 is a kind of epoch
    --2 is a part of Quaternary, Quaternary period, Age of Man
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