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Definition of: Devonian period
Geol.
The fourth of the periods in the Paleozoic era, following the Silurian, and succeeded by the Mississippian, or Lower Carboniferous, period. See chart under GEOLOGY. [from Devon, England; with ref. to rocks and fossils first found there]
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