JURASSIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Jurassic mean? 

• JURASSIC (noun)
  The noun JURASSIC has 1 sense:

1. from 190 million to 135 million years ago; dinosaurs; conifers

  Familiarity information: JURASSIC used as a noun is very rare.

• JURASSIC (adjective)
  The adjective JURASSIC has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to or denoting the second period of the Mesozoic era

  Familiarity information: JURASSIC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JURASSIC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Jurassic; Jurassic period

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)

• JURASSIC (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)

 Context examples 

It’s one of the only good skeletons of one of these ocean reptiles from the middle part of the Jurassic Period.

(Sea Monster Swam Oceans 170 Million Years Ago, Voanews)

Measuring approximately 13 inches in length, Ambopteryx would have lived in the trees of the Jurassic period and used its wings to glide through the air, rather than for powered flight.

(Second Bat-Like Dinosaur Discovered in China, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Setting aside these entirely new forms of life, the plateau was very rich in known prehistoric forms, dating back in some cases to early Jurassic times.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The site is known for its cache of delicate marine specimens from the Early Jurassic –- such as lobsters and vampire squids with their ink sacs still intact — preserved in slabs of black shale.

(Fossils may need air to form, National Science Foundation)

Thus we find such modern creatures as the tapir—an animal with quite a respectable length of pedigree—the great deer, and the ant-eater in the companionship of reptilian forms of jurassic type.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

An exquisite, fascinating fossil find in northern China has provided new evidence that some Jurassic dinosaurs developed membranous wings like those seen in modern day bats.

(Second Bat-Like Dinosaur Discovered in China, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The scientists hope to gain a better understanding about the creature’s ecosystem and more about the Middle Jurassic period that lasted from about 160 to 180 million years ago.

(Sea Monster Swam Oceans 170 Million Years Ago, Voanews)

You will observe that both the pterodactyl and the stegosaurus are Jurassic, and therefore of a great age in the order of life.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Here, said he, pointing to the picture of an extraordinary flying monster, is an excellent reproduction of the dimorphodon, or pterodactyl, a flying reptile of the Jurassic period.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Creatures which were supposed to be Jurassic, monsters who would hunt down and devour our largest and fiercest mammals, still exist. (Cries of Bosh! Prove it! How do YOU know? Question!)

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)