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Jurassic

/d͡ʒʊˈɹæs.ɪk/

Jurassic adjective: of or pertaining to the second period of the Mesozoic era, a time still dominated by dinosaurs.

Adjective

Jurassic (not comparable)

  1. 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.”1990, Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park, Alfred A. Knopf, page 94
    • 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...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
  2. (broadly, proscribed) Of or pertaining to the Mesozoic era as a whole.
  3. 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
  4. (informal) Very old-fashioned and outdated.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...2017, Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner, page 93

Proper noun

Jurassic

  1. 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 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

Jurassic meaning in Tamil, Arabic, Persian and Vietnamese

Jurassic in Tamil

சுராசிக்கு, ஜுராசிக் வகை

Jurassic in Arabic

Jurassic period
اَلْعَصْر اَلْجُورَاسِيّ al-ʕaṣr al-jūrāsiyy

Jurassic in Persian

Jurassic period
ژوراسیک žurâsik

Jurassic in Vietnamese

Jurassic period
kỉ Giu-ra

Examples of Jurassic in a sentence

  • 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.2017 August 9, Mark Carnall, “Why do cephalopods produce ink? And what's ink made of, anyway?”, in The Guardian, archived from the original...
  • Well, thirty compared to twenty-five seemed Jurassic to me back then.2017, Giuliana Prada, Hiding Boys in Bathrooms: A Decade of Dating Debacles:
  • 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:

Origin of Jurassic

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

Words that rhyme with Jurassic

Questions about Jurassic

What does Jurassic mean?
Jurassic means of or pertaining to the second period of the Mesozoic era, a time still dominated by dinosaurs.
What is Jurassic in Tamil?
Jurassic in Tamil is சுராசிக்கு, ஜுராசிக் வகை. See Jurassic meaning in Tamil.
How do you use Jurassic in a sentence?
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.
What part of speech is Jurassic?
Jurassic can be an adjective or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Jurassic?
Jurassic is pronounced /d͡ʒʊˈɹæs.ɪk/.

Words near Jurassic in the dictionary

  1. juraphyllitid
  2. juraphyllitids
  3. jurara
  4. Juras
  5. Jurassian
  6. Jurassic
  7. jurat
  8. juration
  9. jurative
  10. jurator
  11. juratorial

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Jurassic (page history and authors); jurassic (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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