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Jurassic
Of the age of the middle Mesozoic, including, as divided in England and Europe, the Lias, Oolite, and Wealden; -- named from certain rocks of the Jura mountains.
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The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcic carbonate, calcic phosphate, and g…
Appears with this word in Dinosaurs and fossils.A sharp, hooked nail, as of a beast or bird.
Appears with this word in Dinosaurs and fossils.Having the qualities of chalk; abounding with chalk; chalky; as, cretaceous rocks and formations. See Chalk.
Appears with this word in Dinosaurs and fossils.To hollow out; to form cavity or hole in; to make hollow by cutting, scooping, or digging; as, to excavate a ball; to excavate the ear…
Appears with this word in Dinosaurs and fossils.Extinguished; put out; quenched; as, a fire, a light, or a lamp, is extinct; an extinct volcano.
Appears with this word in Dinosaurs and fossils.Dug out of the earth; as, fossil coal; fossil salt.
Appears with this word in Dinosaurs and fossils.One of the Herbivora.
Appears with this word in Dinosaurs and fossils.A repository or a collection of natural, scientific, or literary curiosities, or of works of art.
Appears with this word in Dinosaurs and fossils.An organism that hunts and feeds on other organisms
Appears with this word in Dinosaurs and fossils.Creeping; moving on the belly, or by means of small and short legs.
Appears with this word in Dinosaurs and fossils.The bony and cartilaginous framework which supports the soft parts of a vertebrate animal.
Appears with this word in Dinosaurs and fossils.One of the hard, bony appendages which are borne on the jaws, or on other bones in the walls of the mouth or pharynx of most vertebrat…
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Oolite or roestone; -- written also hammite.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: middle, mesozoic, including, divided, england.An extensive group of fossil cephalopods often very abundant in Mesozoic rocks. See Ammonite.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: middle, mesozoic, including, divided, england.Cleft to the middle or slightly beyond the middle; opening with a cleft; divided by a linear sinus, with straight margins.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: middle, mesozoic, including, divided, england.One of the divisions of Crinoidea found fossil in paleozoic rocks; pentremites. They are so named on account of their budlike form.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: middle, mesozoic, including, divided, england.That which binds, ties, fastens, or confines, or by which anything is fastened or bound, as a cord, chain, etc.; a band; a ligament; a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: middle, mesozoic, including, divided, england.A kind of mineral coal, or brown lignite, burning with a weak flame, and generally a disagreeable odor; -- found at Bovey Tracey, Devo…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: middle, mesozoic, including, divided, england.An old name for a fossil consisting of the petrified teeth and palatal bones of fishes belonging to the family of Pycnodonts (thick te…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: middle, mesozoic, including, divided, england.A metrical break in a verse, occurring in the middle of a foot and commonly near the middle of the verse; a sense pause in the middle…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: middle, mesozoic, including, divided, england.A very extensive order of Annelida, characterized by the presence of lateral setae, or spines, on most or all of the segments. They ar…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: middle, mesozoic, including, divided, england.A deposit of coralliferous limestone forming a portion of the middle division of the oolite; -- called also coral-rag.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: middle, mesozoic, including, divided, england.Of secondary origin; -- said of certain rocks whose material has been derived from older rocks.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: middle, mesozoic, including, divided, england.An order of extinct mesozoic reptiles, mostly of large size (whence the name). Notwithstanding their size, they present birdlike chara…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: middle, mesozoic, including, divided, england.A genus of fossil encrinoidea, from the Mesozoic rocks.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: middle, mesozoic, including, divided, england.In inland duty or impost operating as an indirect tax on the consumer, levied upon certain specified articles, as, tobacco, ale, spiri…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: middle, mesozoic, including, divided, england.A name formerly applied rather loosely to certain dark-colored igneous rocks, including diorite, diabase, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: middle, mesozoic, including, divided, england.A genus of ganoid fishes, found in strata of the new red sandetone, and the lias bone beds.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: middle, mesozoic, including, divided, england.The lower group of the Wealden formation; -- so called from its development around Hastings, in Sussex, England.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: middle, mesozoic, including, divided, england.A large Wealden dinosaur from the Tilgate Forest, England. It was about twenty feet long, protected by bony plates in the skin, and ar…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: middle, mesozoic, including, divided, england.
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