osagian

osagian
\\-jēən\ adjective
Usage: usually capitalized
Etymology: Osage river, eastern Kansas and western and central Missouri + English -an
: of or relating to the division of the Mississippian geologic period between the Kinderhook and the Meramec — see geologic time table

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