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Jurassic en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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/d͡ʒʊˈɹæs.ɪk/
jo͝o-răs'ĭk

Etymology

Borrowed from French Jurassique, named for the discovery and type location in the Jura Mountains of Switzerland. The -assic suffix was extracted from Triassic.

Meanings

(not-comparable) Of or pertaining to the second period of the Mesozoic era, a time still dominated by dinosaurs.
- Fossils are particularly well described from the Carboniferous, Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and have been found in the USA, England, Russia, Lebanon and Germany. Sites such as Lyme Regis in Dorset have particularly yielded number of Jurassic “squid” ink sacs and nodules (Doguzhaeva et al. 2004). 2017 August 9, Mark Carnall, “Why do cephalopods produce ink? And what's ink made of, anyway?”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 12 Jan 2026:
- 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.” 1990, Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park, Alfred A. Knopf, page 94:
(broadly, not-comparable, proscribed) Of or pertaining to the Mesozoic era as a whole.
(not-comparable) 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. 1910, Peter Kropotkin, “Anarchism”, in Encyclopædia Britannica:
(informal, not-comparable) Very old-fashioned and outdated.
- Those fears and excuses seem positively Jurassic more than eighty years later. 2009 March, Byron Rempel, “Women's Ski Jumping Takes Aim at the Winter Olympics”, in Skiing Heritage Journal, volume 21, number 1, page 17:
- For every three shops or restaurants that looked as if they might have had a poster of Che Guevara somewhere on the premises, there was one stubborn Jurassic retailer offering knit suits for older women or an Italian restaurant that offered all-you-can-eat garlic bread and didn't call itself a trattoria. 2017, Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner, page 93:
- Well, thirty compared to twenty-five seemed Jurassic to me back then. 2017, Giuliana Prada, Hiding Boys in Bathrooms: A Decade of Dating Debacles:

Translations (15)

pl jurajski (of period from 200 to 145 million years ago) · pt jurássico (old-fashioned and outdated) · pt jurássico (of period from 200 to 145 million years ago) · bg юрски (of period from 200 to 145 million years ago) · ga Iúrasach (of period from 200 to 145 million years ago) · tr Jura (of period from 200 to 145 million years ago) · ka იურული (of period from 200 to 145 million years ago) · fi jurakautinen (of period from 200 to 145 million years ago) · mk јурски (of period from 200 to 145 million years ago) · he יורה (of period from 200 to 145 million years ago) · fr jurassique (of period from 200 to 145 million years ago) · ca juràssic (of period from 200 to 145 million years ago) · gl xurásico (of period from 200 to 145 million years ago) · cs jurský (of period from 200 to 145 million years ago) · mn юрийн (of period from 200 to 145 million years ago)

Jurassic en · PROPN

Pronunciation

(US) audio
/d͡ʒʊˈɹæs.ɪk/
jo͝o-răs'ĭk

Etymology

Borrowed from French Jurassique, named for the discovery and type location in the Jura Mountains of Switzerland. The -assic suffix was extracted from Triassic.

Meanings

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.
- Fossils are particularly well described from the Carboniferous, Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and have been found in the USA, England, Russia, Lebanon and Germany. Sites such as Lyme Regis in Dorset have particularly yielded number of Jurassic “squid” ink sacs and nodules (Doguzhaeva et al. 2004). 2017 August 9, Mark Carnall, “Why do cephalopods produce ink? And what's ink made of, anyway?”, in The Guardian:
- [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 that in the Upper Jurassic, Europe and North America were joined to form Laurasia and the Atlantic Ocean still had to be formed … D. M. Kermack, K. A. Kermack, The Evolution of Mammalian Characters

Coordinates

system (geological period) · Cretaceous (geological period) · Triassic (geological period)

Hypernyms

Mesozoic (geological period) · Phanerozoic - eon (geological period)

Hyponyms

Upper Jurassic (geological period) · series (geological period) · Middle Jurassic (geological period) · Lower Jurassic (geological period)

Translations (33)

fa ژوراسیک (Jurassic period) · vi kỉ Giu-ra (Jurassic period) · hu jura (Jurassic period) · ca juràssic (Jurassic period) · et juura (Jurassic period) · fi jurakausi (Jurassic period) · ka იურული პერიოდი (Jurassic period) · ru ю́ра (Jurassic period) · ja ジュラ紀 (Jurassic period) · tr Jura (Jurassic period) · ru ю́рский пери́од (Jurassic period) · gl Xurásico (Jurassic period) · cmn 侏羅紀 /侏罗纪 (Jurassic period) · ga An Tréimhse Iúrasach (Jurassic period) · mn Юрийн галав (Jurassic period) · ga An tIúrasach (Jurassic period) · he יוּרָה (Jurassic period) · pt Jurássico (Jurassic period) · ka იურული ხანა (Jurassic period) · es Jurásico (Jurassic period) · bg юра (Jurassic period) · cs jura (Jurassic period) · el Ιουρασική (Jurassic period) · pl jura (Jurassic period) · ar اَلْعَصْر اَلْجُورَاسِيّ (Jurassic period) · mk јура (Jurassic period) · ko 쥐라기 (Jurassic period) · ja 侏羅紀 (Jurassic period) · no jura (Jurassic period) · de Jura (Jurassic period) · fr jurassique (Jurassic period) · ka იურული სისტემა (Jurassic period) · mn ᠶᠦᠷ ᠦᠨ ᠭᠠᠯᠪᠠ (Jurassic period)