Jurassic

Meanings

Adjective

• Of or pertaining to the second period of the Mesozoic era, a time still dominated by dinosaurs.
• Of or pertaining to the people or region near the Jura Mountain Range of Europe.
• Very old-fashioned and outdated.

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.

Related

Narrower meaning words

• Lower Jurassic, Middle Jurassic, Upper Jurassic - epochs; series

Broader meaning words

• Phanerozoic - eon; Mesozoic - era

Origin

• Borrowed from French Jurassique, named for the discovery and type location in the Jura Mountains of Switzerland.