tertiary

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Synonyms: vestiary, ternary, bestiary, retiary, tertian, tartary, tertiate, tertial, textuary, termitary, tertry

Antonyms: vestiary, ternary, bestiary, retiary, tertian, tartary, tertiate, tertial, textuary, termitary, tertry

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Adjective

Of [[third]] [[rank#Noun|rank]] or [[order#Noun|order]]; [[subsequent]].
{{lb|en|chemistry}} Possessing some [[quality]] in the third degree; ''especially'' having been subjected to the [[substitution]] of [[three]] [[atom]]s or [[radical]]s.
{{lb|en|ornithology}} Of [[quill]]s: growing on the [[innermost]] [[joint#Noun|joint]] of a [[bird]]'s [[wing]]; [[tertial]].

Any item considered to be of [[third]] order.
A [[tertiary colour]].
{{lb|en|geology}} Something from the {{w|Tertiary}} Period (the former term for the [[geologic]] period from 65 million to 2.58 million years ago).
{{lb|en|ornithology}} A tertiary [[feather]]; a [[tertial#Noun|tertial]].
{{lb|en|Roman Catholicism}} A member of a [[Roman Catholic]] [[third order]]; a [[layperson]] who [[participate]]s in activities similar to those [[engage]]d in by [[man#Noun|men]] and [[woman|women]] who take [[religious]] [[vow#Noun|vows]] (respectively the first and second orders), and who may [[wear#Verb|wear]] some [[element]]s of an [[order#Noun|order]]'s [[habit]] such as a [[scapular]].

{{lb|en|geology}} The first part of the [[Cenozoic]] era when modern flora and mammals appeared.

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