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Mesozoic   Listen
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Mesozoic  adj.  (Geol.) Belonging, or relating, to the secondary or reptilian age, or the era between the Paleozoic and Cenozoic. See Chart of Geology.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Mesozoic" Quotes from Famous Books



... animal kingdom, he affirmed the tabulate corals of the Silurian rocks to be wonderfully like those which now exist; while even the families of the Aporosa were all represented in the older Mesozoic rocks. ...
— Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews • Thomas Henry Huxley

... shape of extra hard rock," replied the tunnel contractor. "Briefly, Paleozoic rocks make up the eastern part of the Andean Mountains in Peru, while the western range is formed of Mesozoic beds, volcanic ashes and lava of comparatively recent date. Near the coast the lower hills are composed of crystalline rocks, syenite and granite, with, here and there, a strata of sandstone or limestone. These are, undoubtedly, relics of the lower Cretaceous age, ...
— Tom Swift and his Big Tunnel - or, The Hidden City of the Andes • Victor Appleton

... practical end. A farmer does not divide plants, like a botanist, into dicotyledonous and monocotyledonous, but into useful plants and weeds. A geologist divides fossils, not like a zoologist, into families corresponding to those of living species, but into fossils of the paleozoic, mesozoic, and tertiary periods, above the coal and below the coal, etc. Whales are or are not fish according to the purpose for which we are considering them. "If we are speaking of the internal structure and physiology of the animal, ...
— A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive • John Stuart Mill



Words linked to "Mesozoic" :   Jurassic, cretaceous, Mesozoic era, Triassic period, era, geological era, Triassic, Jurassic period, Age of Reptiles, Cretaceous period



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