Mesozoic
[,mesəu'zəuik;,mez-]
Definition
(noun.) from 230 million to 63 million years ago.
(adj.) of or relating to or denoting the Mesozoic era .
Typist: Nigel--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Edited by Alison
Definition
adj. of the Secondary geological period including the Triassic Jurassic and Cretaceous systems.
Editor: Simon
Examples
- They are often described as _flying_ reptiles, and pictures are drawn of Mesozoic scenery in which they are seen soaring and swooping about. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- 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. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Such plants had already been in evidence in the later levels of the (American Cretaceous) Mesozoic, but now they dominated the scene altogether. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- 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. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Mesozoic life, animal and vegetable alike, was adapted to warm conditions and capable of little resistance to cold. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They must have had a grotesque resemblance to heraldic dragons, and they played the part of bat-like birds in the Mesozoic jungles. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Possibly the implement-using disposition was already present in the Mesozoic ancestry from which we are descended. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- 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. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Right up to the latest Mesozoic Rocks we find all these reptilian orders we have enumerated still flourishing unchallenged. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- 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. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Probably the Mesozoic was not an age of very brightly coloured vegetation. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Certainly either mammals, or the ancestors of the mammals, must have lived throughout the Mesozoic period. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Yet in all the relics of the Mesozoic time we find no certain memorials of his ancestry. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Were there mammals in the Mesozoic period? H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Mesozoic Period would still have found him setting bounds to life far more limited than the bounds that are set to-day. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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