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JURASSIC

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

From 190 million to 135 million years ago; dinosaurs; conifers

Synonyms:

Jurassic; Jurassic period

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Instance hypernyms:

geological period; period (a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed)

Holonyms ("Jurassic" is a part of...):

Age of Reptiles; Mesozoic; Mesozoic era (from 230 million to 63 million years ago)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or denoting the second period of the Mesozoic era

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

Jurassic (from 190 million to 135 million years ago; dinosaurs; conifers)

Credits

 Context examples: 

The inscription beneath it runs: 'Probable appearance in life of the Jurassic Dinosaur Stegosaurus. The hind leg alone is twice as tall as a full-grown man.'

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We have been privileged to overhear a prehistoric tragedy, the sort of drama which occurred among the reeds upon the border of some Jurassic lagoon, when the greater dragon pinned the lesser among the slime, said Challenger, with more solemnity than I had ever heard in his voice.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)