Precambrian
adjUK /priːˈkam.bɹɪ.ən/ · US /priˈkæm.bɹi.ən/
Etymology From pre- + Cambrian.
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Geography, Geology, Natural sciences Informal Relating to the time and geology dated before the Phanerozoic
- When you look at a Precambrian trilobite in the lobby of a New York bank, it is difficult to speculate about its primeval environment.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 209: