Usually means: Ice Age geological time period.
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  1. pleistocene: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Pleistocene, Pleistocene: Merriam-Webster
  3. Pleistocene, the Pleistocene: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Pleistocene: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Pleistocene, the Pleistocene: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Pleistocene: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pleistocene, pleistocene: Wordnik
  8. Pleistocene, pleistocene, the Pleistocene, the pleistocene: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Pleistocene: Wiktionary
  10. Pleistocene: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. Pleistocene: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. Pleistocene: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Pleistocene: Dictionary.com
  14. Pleistocene: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Pleistocene: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Pleistocene: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. pleistocene: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. Pleistocene: Rhymezone
  19. Pleistocene: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. pleistocene: FreeDictionary.org
  21. pleistocene: Mnemonic Dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (Pleistocene)

adjective:  (geology) Of a geologic epoch within the Quaternary period from about 2,588,000 to 11,700 years ago (earlier definition 1.7 million to 11,000 years ago); marked by the evolution of man, and the extinction of the large mammals.
noun:  (geology) The Pleistocene epoch.

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