Faluns

1 definition found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Faluns \Fa`luns"\, n. [F.] (Geol.)
     A series of strata, of the Middle Tertiary period, of France,
     abounding in shells, and used by Lyell as the type of his
     Miocene subdivision.
     [1913 Webster]