noun
- Any period of time during which glaciers covered a large part of the earth's surface.
- usage: "the most recent ice age was during the Pleistocene"
- synonyms: ice age, glacial period
- From two million to 11 thousand years ago; extensive glaciation of the northern hemisphere; the time of human evolution.
- synonyms: Pleistocene, Pleistocene epoch
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