Definitions for Cretaceous

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Cretaceous cre·ta·ceous

Spelling: [kri-tey-shuh s]

IPA: /krɪˈteɪ ʃəs/

Cretaceous is a 10 letter English word.

You can make 720 anagrams from letters in Cretaceous (acceeorstu).

Definitions for Cretaceous

noun

1. (initial capital letter) Geology. the Cretaceous Period or System.

adjective

1. resembling or containing chalk.
2. (initial capital letter) Geology. noting or pertaining to a period of the Mesozoic Era, from 140 million to 65 million years ago, characterized by the greatest development and subsequent extinction of dinosaurs and the advent of flowering plants and modern insects.

Origin of Cretaceous

1665-70; Latin crētāceus, equivalent to crēt(a) chalk, clay (cf. crayon) + -āceus -aceous; the geological period was defined from the cha

Examples for Cretaceous

The black market trade in fossils stolen from the richest cretaceous fossil locality in the world has prompted a crackdown.

So in the Mesozoic we have five also, from the Trias to the cretaceous inclusive.

Life in the cretaceous begins to take on distinctly its modern form.

Have you other fences than the one which I know, built of the cretaceous rock?

Placentalia must have come into existence during the cretaceous epoch.

They swam in the cretaceous interior sea of western North America.

The cretaceous limestones of Mexico were folded into lofty mountains.

The duration of the cretaceous subsidence must have been very great.

The last stages of the cretaceous are marked by a decadence of the reptiles.

I love not the cretaceous and incredible countenance of his colleague.