jurassic
/d͡ʒʊˈɹæs.ɪk/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.50 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to the second period of the Mesozoic era, a time still dominated by dinosaurs.
adj
Of or pertaining to the Mesozoic era as a whole.
adj
Of or pertaining to the people or region near the Jura Mountain Range of Europe.
Example Sentences
- "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.”"
- "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)."
- "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."
- "Those fears and excuses seem positively Jurassic more than eighty years later."
- "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."
- "Well, thirty compared to twenty-five seemed Jurassic to me back then."
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.