CRETACEOUS
\kɹɛtˈe͡ɪʃəs], \kɹɛtˈeɪʃəs], \k_ɹ_ɛ_t_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_s]\
Definitions of CRETACEOUS
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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from 63 million to 135 million years ago; end of the age of reptiles; appearance of modern insects and flowering plants
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of or relating to the Cretaceous geologic era; "cretaceous rocks"
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of or relating to the Cretaceous geologic era; "cretaceous rocks"
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from 135 million to 63 million years ago; end of the age of reptiles; appearance of modern insects and flowering plants
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Having the qualities of chalk; abounding with chalk; chalky; as, cretaceous rocks and formations. See Chalk.
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Alt. of Cretacic
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By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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Containing, or relating to, having the characters of, chalk; as cretaceous mixture, cretaceous tubercles.
By Robley Dunglison
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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basidiomycota
- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).