|tärd ə n|ȯizhən, -|ȯizēən, -|wäzēən adjective
Usage: usually capitalized
Etymology: Fère-en- Tardenois, town in northeastern France where the implements were found + English -an
: of or belonging to an early Mesolithic culture characterized by small flint implements of geometrical form and regarded by some authorities as the northward advance of the Capsian culture contemporaneous with the Azilian culture