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noun
An uncertain state of the global climate, neither greenhouse nor icehouse, ascribed by some paleoclimatologists to the late Eocene.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: climatology, natural-sciences
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Antonyms: none provided
History
Compound of doubt + house. Coined by American geoscientist Kenneth G. Miller in 1992.
