dryas

About 0.12 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Any of several plants of the genus Dryas; the mountain avens.
2. noun One of two periods of cold and increased glaciation thousands of years before the present (Younger Dryas and Older Dryas).

Similar words

genus dryas younger dryas cryocratic xerothermic period telocratic cryogenian cromerian interglaciation interglacial eemian

Often followed by

octopetala event and integrifolia period cold stadial in cooling