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Jurassic   /dʒʊrˈæsɪk/   Listen
Jurassic

noun
1.
From 190 million to 135 million years ago; dinosaurs; conifers.  Synonym: Jurassic period.



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"Jurassic" Quotes from Famous Books



... the chalk was tossed aloft there had been an earlier upheaval from the depths of the ocean, that of the Jurassic limestone. This was built up by coral insects working indefatigably through long ages, piling up their structures, as the sea-bottom slowly sank, straining ever higher, till at length their building was crushed together and projected on high, ...
— Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe • Sabine Baring-Gould
... to the present, their inquiries had not been fruitful; and yet the environs of Falaise, like all Jurassic soils, should abound in ...
— Bouvard and Pecuchet - A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life • Gustave Flaubert


Words linked to "Jurassic" :   Age of Reptiles, period, Mesozoic era, Mesozoic, geological period


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