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Cretaceous

adjective

Abounding in chalk.

Of or relating to or denoting the third period of the Mesozoic era.

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"Cretaceous" Quotes from Famous Books

... the little geologist he had, in his preoccupation, overlooked. This poor little creature having dodged two boulders by a hairbreadth, got out by the westward corner and fled athwart the hill, with flapping rucksack and twinkling knicker-bockered legs, leaving a trail of Cretaceous echinoderms behind him; while young Caddies, satisfied with the destruction he had achieved, came striding out to fulfil ...

— The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth • H.G. Wells

... cross at any time, but especially detestable when the dust lies thick upon the white road and the summer sun is blazing overhead. But how delightful is the contrast when, going down at length from these cretaceous uplands, where even the potato plants look as if they had been whitewashed, you see below the verdant valley of the Dronne, that seems to be blessed with eternal spring, the gay flash of the winding stream, the grand ...

— Two Summers in Guyenne • Edward Harrison Barker

Words linked to "Cretaceous" : Cretaceous period, Age of Reptiles, period, chalk, Mesozoic, geological period, Mesozoic era