Jurassic period
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5.8
- noun
- /dʒʊˈræsɪk ˈpɪərəd/
- Specialized
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período jurásico
- During the Jurassic period, plants like conifers thrived alongside various dinosaur species.
- late Jurassic period
- early Jurassic period
- end of the Jurassic period
Examples
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Maybe she was Cindy Sue or Barbara way back in the Jurassic period, but she's called herself Sinsemilla as long as I've known her.
Fiction book (2002) -
During the Jurassic period, a new group of marine reptiles takes over, the Plesiosaurs.
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The question "when did the Jurassic period end?" was categorized into this dimension as well.
Academic text (2014) -
Since this was in the Jurassic period before smartphones, I came to get her at the designated time for the return.
Blog text (23) -
At the end of the Jurassic period, as the continents continue to drift, new oceans appear and new Plesiosaur species rule the deep.
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The factor that characterizes the end of the Jurassic period (i.e., disappearance of dinosaurs) will be a possible alternative extension of the principal focus.
Academic text (2014) -
"Well, we want Jurassic Park to be as real an environment as possible—as authentic as possible—and the procompsognathids are actual scavengers from the Jurassic period.
Fiction book (1990) -
To begin at the beginning, the earliest evidence of mammals, dating at least as far back as the early Jurassic period, about 195 million years ago, comprises fossils of creatures resembling small shrews that coexisted with the dinosaurs.
Academic text (2009) -
Many scientists study fossils from the Jurassic period to understand how dinosaurs lived.
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The Jurassic period is famous for the appearance of large dinosaurs that roamed the Earth.
Synonyms
A period about 201 to 145 million years ago when dinosaurs were common
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'Jurassic' (a named geological time interval) with 'period' (a measured interval); together they denote the Jurassic time period. This is a straightforward compositional label found across languages (e.g., periodo jurásico, période jurassique), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will understand it.
Etymology
Jurassic period gets its name from the Jura Mountains in Europe, where scientists who study rocks first found and described the rock layers from that long ago 'time'. The word Jurassic comes from those mountains and period means a 'time', so the phrase now names the long 'time' when dinosaurs and conifer forests were common.