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Mesozoic (adj.)
1840, from Greek
mesos
"middle" (see
meso-
) +
zoe
"life" (see
zoo
) +
-ic
. Name coined by British geologist John Phillips for the fossil era "between" the Paleozoic and the Cenozoic.