Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or being the era of geologic time from about 251 to 65 million years ago. The Mesozoic Era includes the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous Periods and is characterized by the development of flying reptiles, birds, and flowering plants and by the appearance and extinction of dinosaurs.
- noun The Mesozoic Era.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In geology, lying, as a part of the geological series so designated, between the Paleozoic and the Tertiary rocks.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The Mesozoic age or formation.
- adjective (Geol.) Belonging, or relating, to the secondary or reptilian age, or the era between the Paleozoic and Cenozoic. See
Chart ofgeology .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective geology Of a
geologic era within thePhanerozoic eon that comprises theTriassic ,Jurassic andCretaceous periods from about 230 to 65 million years ago, whenlife onearth wasdominated byreptiles . - proper noun geology The Mesozoic era.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun from 230 million to 63 million years ago
- adjective of or relating to or denoting the Mesozoic era
Etymologies
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Examples
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Because, millions of years ago, in Mesozoic times, this was the shoreline of the country, and the preferred habitat of now extinct sea creatures called ammonites.
Between Dolores Hidalgo and San Miguel de Allende: Pozos, Atotonilco and Hacienda Taboada 1997
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Because, millions of years ago, in Mesozoic times, this was the shoreline of the country, and the preferred habitat of now extinct sea creatures called ammonites.
Between Dolores Hidalgo and San Miguel de Allende: Pozos, Atotonilco and Hacienda Taboada 1997
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Because, millions of years ago, in Mesozoic times, this was the shoreline of the country, and the preferred habitat of now extinct sea creatures called ammonites.
Between Dolores Hidalgo and San Miguel de Allende: Pozos, Atotonilco and Hacienda Taboada 1997
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Because, millions of years ago, in Mesozoic times, this was the shoreline of the country, and the preferred habitat of now extinct sea creatures called ammonites.
Between Dolores Hidalgo and San Miguel de Allende: Pozos, Atotonilco and Hacienda Taboada 1997
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Evolutionary Development of the Middle Ear in Mesozoic Therian Mammals, Science 2009.
A New Book 2010
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Evolutionary Development of the Middle Ear in Mesozoic Therian Mammals, Science 2009.
A New Book 2010
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The ossified Meckel’s cartilage and internal groove in Mesozoic mammaliaforms: implications to origin of the definitive mammalian middle ear.
Archive 2006-05-01 Darren Naish 2006
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This just isn’t possible in Mesozoic animals when so little is known of their ecology.
The war on parasites: an oviraptorosaur’s eye view Darren Naish 2006
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This just isn’t possible in Mesozoic animals when so little is known of their ecology.
Archive 2006-07-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Just last week PLoS published findings about fossils of a 110 million-year-old dinosaur that has come to be known as the Mesozoic Cow.
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