Jurassic
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Jurassic
- /d͡ʒʊˈɹæs.ɪk/
Rhymes with -æsɪk
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French Jurassique, named for the discovery and type location in the Jura Mountains of Switzerland. The -assic suffix was extracted from Triassic.
adjective
- Of or pertaining to the second period of the Mesozoic era, a time still dominated by dinosaurs. His father squinted at the skeleton. “What is it, Jurassic?” “Jeez. No. Cretaceous.” “Cretaceous? What's the difference between Cretaceous and Jurassic?” “Only about a hundred million years,” Tim said. “Cretaceous is older?” “No, Dad, Jurassic is older.”
- Of or pertaining to the Mesozoic era as a whole.
- Of or pertaining to the people or region near the Jura Mountain Range of Europe. The Jurassic, the Spanish and the Italian federations and sections of the International Working Men's Association, as also the French, the German and the American anarchist groups, were for the next years the chief centres of anarchist thought and propaganda.
- Very old-fashioned and outdated. Those fears and excuses seem positively Jurassic more than eighty years later.
proper noun
- The period from 201.3±0.2 to 145 million years ago, after the Triassic and before the Cretaceous; the geologic systems of this period. [p 108] Like the Forest Marble Beds in the Middle Jurassic, the Purbeck Beds of the Upper Jurassic are deltaic or estuarine in origin, so as well as mammals they contain small, presumably freshwater, crocodiles and the first indisputable lizards. [p 109] This is less surprising if it is recalled tha
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: jurassic period, triassic, dinosaur, mesozoic, dinosaurian, prehistoric, primeval, ancient, palaeontological, antediluvian, archaic, primitive, fossiliferous, dinosauric, tertiary, archaeozoic
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adj of period from 200 to 145 million years ago
| Português | jurássico |
|---|---|
| Français | jurassique |
| עברית | יורה yúra |
adj old-fashioned and outdated
| Português | jurássico |
|---|
name Jurassic period
| Español | Jurásico |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 쥐라기 jwiragi |
| 日本語 | ジュラ紀 Jura-ki, 侏羅紀 Jura-ki |
| 中文 | 侏羅紀 /侏罗纪 Zhūluójì |
| Português | Jurássico |
| Français | jurassique |
| Deutsch | Jura |
| Ελληνικά | Ιουρασική Iourasikí |
| Русский | ю́ра júra, ю́рский пери́од júrskij períod |
| Tiếng Việt | kỉ Giu-ra |
| العربية | اَلْعَصْر اَلْجُورَاسِيّ al-ʕaṣr al-jūrāsiyy |
| עברית | יוּרָה yúra |
Talk about this word "Jurassic." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/jurassic. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. Jurassic. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/jurassic "Jurassic." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/jurassic.Cite this
@misc{jurassic_2026,
title = {Jurassic},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/jurassic},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
