The first dinosaurs were modestly sized, a far cry from the immense dinosaurs of the subsequent Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods.
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Cretaceous
//kɹəˈteɪ.ʃəs//
Synonyms for "cretaceous" (17 found)
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43 translations across 31 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- Կեղտոտ name (geologic period within the Mesozoic)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- Kretase name (geologic period within the Mesozoic)
Bulgarian
1 entries- тебеширен adj (of or relating to chalk)
Catalan
1 entries- cretaci name (geologic period within the Mesozoic)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 白堊紀 /白垩纪 name (geologic period within the Mesozoic)
Czech
1 entries- křída name (geologic period within the Mesozoic)
Dutch
1 entries- Krijt name (geologic period within the Mesozoic)
Estonian
2 entries- kriidiajastu name (geologic period within the Mesozoic)
- kriit name (geologic period within the Mesozoic)
Finnish
1 entries- liitukausi name (geologic period within the Mesozoic)
French
4 entries- crayeux adj (of or relating to chalk)
- crayeux adj (consisting of chalk)
- crétacé adj (consisting of chalk)
- Crétacé name (geologic period within the Mesozoic)
Galician
1 entries- Cretáceo name (geologic period within the Mesozoic)
Georgian
3 entries- ცარცული name (geologic period within the Mesozoic)
- ცარცული პერიოდი name (geologic period within the Mesozoic)
- ცარცული სისტემა name (geologic period within the Mesozoic)
German
1 entries- Kreide name (geologic period within the Mesozoic)
Greek
1 entries- Κρητιδική name (geologic period within the Mesozoic)
Hebrew
1 entries- קְרֶטִיקוֹן name (geologic period within the Mesozoic)
Hungarian
1 entries- kréta name (geologic period within the Mesozoic)
Italian
2 entries- cretaceo name (geologic period within the Mesozoic)
- cretacico name (geologic period within the Mesozoic)
Japanese
2 entries- 白亜紀 name (geologic period within the Mesozoic)
- 白堊紀 name (geologic period within the Mesozoic)
Korean
1 entries- 백악기 name (geologic period within the Mesozoic)
Mongolian
2 entries- Цэрдийн галав name (geologic period within the Mesozoic)
- ᠴᠡᠷᠳᠡ ᠵᠢᠨ ᠭᠠᠯᠪᠠ name (geologic period within the Mesozoic)
Occitan
1 entries- cretacèu name (geologic period within the Mesozoic)
Polish
1 entries- kreda name (geologic period within the Mesozoic)
Portuguese
1 entries- cretáceo name (geologic period within the Mesozoic)
Romanian
1 entries- cretacic name (geologic period within the Mesozoic)
Russian
2 entries- мел name (geologic period within the Mesozoic)
- мелово́й пери́од name (geologic period within the Mesozoic)
Spanish
2 entries- Cretáceo name (geologic period within the Mesozoic)
- Cretácico name (geologic period within the Mesozoic)
Swedish
1 entries- krita name (geologic period within the Mesozoic)
Turkish
1 entries- kretase name (geologic period within the Mesozoic)
Ukrainian
1 entries- кре́йдовий adj (of or relating to chalk)
Uyghur
1 entries- بور دەۋرى name (geologic period within the Mesozoic)
Vietnamese
2 entries- kỉ Crê-ta name (geologic period within the Mesozoic)
- kỉ Phấn Trắng name (geologic period within the Mesozoic)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
Elasmosaurs are a genus of plesiosaur that lived in North America during the Late Cretaceous.
Source: tatoeba (9171123)
Nasutoceratops — which means big-nosed horn face — lived 76 million years ago, in the late Cretaceous period, in what was then a subtropical swampy environment.
Source: tatoeba (11192006)
Impressions of leaves found in the Upper Cretaceous rocks of the Yellowstone Valley cannot be distinguished from those of the leaves of our two American hazel species of today.
Source: tatoeba (11480595)
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