Jurassic

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Of or pertaining to the second period of the Mesozoic era, a time still dominated by dinosaurs.

   “His father squinted at the skeleton. “What is it, Jurassic?” “Jeez. No. Cretaceous.” “Cretaceous? What's the difference between Cretaceous and Jurassic?” “Only about a hundred million years,” Tim said. “Cretaceous is older?” “No, Dad, Jurassic is older.””

2. sıfat Of or pertaining to the Mesozoic era as a whole.
3. sıfat Of or pertaining to the people or region near the Jura Mountain Range of Europe.

   “The Jurassic, the Spanish and the Italian federations and sections of the International Working Men's Association, as also the French, the German and the American anarchist groups, were for the next years the chief centres of anarchist thought and propaganda.”

4. sıfat Very old-fashioned and outdated.

   “Those fears and excuses seem positively Jurassic more than eighty years later.”

5. özel isim The period from 201.3±0.2 to 145 million years ago, after the Triassic and before the Cretaceous; the geologic systems of this period.