Mesozoic
[,mesəu'zəuik;,mez-]
解释:
(noun.) from 230 million to 63 million years ago.
(adj.) of or relating to or denoting the Mesozoic era .
手打:奈杰尔--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Belonging, or relating, to the secondary or reptilian age, or the era between the Paleozoic and Cenozoic. See Chart of Geology.
(n.) The Mesozoic age or formation.
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解释:
adj. of the Secondary geological period including the Triassic Jurassic and Cretaceous systems.
校对:西蒙
例句:
- They are often described as _flying_ reptiles, and pictures are drawn of Mesozoic scenery in which they are seen soaring and swooping about. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The lower levels of the Mesozoic land were no doubt covered by great fern brakes and shrubby bush and a kind of jungle growth of trees. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Such plants had already been in evidence in the later levels of the (American Cretaceous) Mesozoic, but now they dominated the scene altogether. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- But there is not a scrap, not a bone, to suggest that there lived any Mesozoic Mammal which could look a dinosaur in the face. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The Mesozoic life, animal and vegetable alike, was adapted to warm conditions and capable of little resistance to cold. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- They must have had a grotesque resemblance to heraldic dragons, and they played the part of bat-like birds in the Mesozoic jungles. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Possibly the implement-using disposition was already present in the Mesozoic ancestry from which we are descended. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The range of life of the Mesozoic Period as we know it was confined to water and fairly low-lying valley regions under equable conditions. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Right up to the latest Mesozoic Rocks we find all these reptilian orders we have enumerated still flourishing unchallenged. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- When one speaks of conifers in the Mesozoic the reader must not think of the pines and firs that clothe the high mountain slopes of our time. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Probably the Mesozoic was not an age of very brightly coloured vegetation. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Certainly either mammals, or the ancestors of the mammals, must have lived throughout the Mesozoic period. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Yet in all the relics of the Mesozoic time we find no certain memorials of his ancestry. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Were there mammals in the Mesozoic period? 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The Mesozoic Period would still have found him setting bounds to life far more limited than the bounds that are set to-day. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
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