tertiary oil

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• tertiary — I. noun (plural ries) Date: circa 1550 1. [Medieval Latin tertiarius, from Latin, of a third] a member of a monastic third order especially of lay people 2. capitalized the Tertiary period or system of rocks II. adjective Etymology: Latin …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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