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10 letters word
14 points in Scrabble
17 points in WWF

Definitions for CRETACEOUS in dictionary:

NOUN:

the Cretaceous period
from 135 million to 63 million years ago; end of the age of reptiles; appearance of modern insects and flowering plants

ADJECTIVE:

of or resembling chalk
Having the qualities of chalk; abounding with chalk; chalky; as, cretaceous rocks and formations. See Chalk.
abounding in chalk
of or relating to or denoting the third period of the Mesozoic era

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How to use CRETACEOUS in a sentence

But the relative age of the cretaceous epoch may be determined with as great ease and certainty as the long duration of that epoch.
Here then were organisms, as old as the cretaceous epoch, still alive, and doing their work of rock-making at the bottom of existing seas.
Flintcomb-Ash being in the middle of the cretaceous tableland over which no railway had climbed as yet, it would be necessary to walk.
Upon these followed the chalk deposits of the Cretaceous epoch, until the basin was gradually filled, and partially, at least, turned to dry land.
Indeed, a classification of the Cretaceous Fishes would correspond very nearly to one founded on those now living.
There are some very remarkable instances of this in the Cretaceous deposits.
During Cretaceous times the Tethys became greatly extended, indicating a considerable subsidence of northwestern India, Afghanistan, Western Asia, and, probably, much of Tibet.
I hope you will not stop here, but will go on and give us in equally thorough, full, and magnificent style, the character of the Durassic and Cretaceous formations.
From the great central boss of the chalk system in Salisbury Plain, two long cretaceous horns or projections run out to eastward towards the Channel and the German Sea.
Birds with teeth are also found in the Cretaceous, though in most other respects the birds of that period had attained a substantially modern structure.

A slow decline begins in the Cretaceous, ending in the complete extinction of the whole group at the end of that period.
The typical and beautifully preserved Palm-wood from Cretaceous rocks is striking evidence of the early evolution of a characteristic monocotyledonous family.
A few years later Asa Gray found the explanation in both areas being centres of preservation of the Cretaceous flora from a common origin.
The age of these volcanic outbursts cannot be more definitely stated than that they are post-Jurassic, and probably extended through Cretaceous into early Tertiary times.
During ten years explorations in the Western Cretaceous formations, Mr.
As a result of the Canadian work the Museum is enriched by a magnificent collection of Cretaceous fossils some of which are new to science.
There are single seams up to 60 feet thick, but much of the coal is covered by more recent rocks of New Red and Cretaceous age.

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