Cretaceous als zelfstandig naamwoord: - 1
cretaceous als bijvoeglijk naamwoord: - 1
Cretaceous - 2
Cretaceous
zelfstandig naamwoord
1 Cretaceous
From 135 million to 63 million years ago; end of the age of reptiles; appearance of modern insects and flowering plants.
synoniem: Cretaceous period.
Nederlands: Krijt
Pools: kreda
bijvoeglijk naamwoord
1 cretaceous
Abounding in chalk.
Roget 430:
white;
milk-white,
snow-white;
snowy;
niveous†,
candid,
chalky;
hoar,
hoary;
silvery;
argent,
argentine;
canescent†,
cretaceous,
lactescent†.
whitish,
creamy,
pearly,
fair,
blond;
blanched
etc.
v.;
high in tone,
light.
white as a sheet,
white as driven snow,
white as a lily,
white as silver;
like ivory
etc.
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Nederlands: krijtachtig
2 Cretaceous
Of or relating to or denoting the third period of the Mesozoic era.
Pools: kredowy
Roget 124:
old,
ancient,
antique;
of long standing,
time-honored,
venerable;
elder,
eldest;
firstborn.
prime;
primitive,
primeval,
primigenous†;
paleolontological,
paleontologic,
paleoanthropological,
paleoanthropic†,
paleolithic,
primordial,
primordinate†;
aboriginal
etc.
(beginning)
66;
diluvian†,
antediluvian;
protohistoric†;
prehistoric;
antebellum,
colonial,
precolumbian;
patriarchal,
preadamite†;
paleocrystic†;
fossil,
paleozoolical,
paleozoic,
preglacial†,
antemundane†;
archaic,
classic,
medieval,
Pre-Raphaelite,
ancestral,
black-letter.
immemorial,
traditional,
prescriptive,
customary,
whereof the memory of man runneth not to the whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary;
inveterate,
rooted.
antiquated,
of other times,
rococo,
of the old school,
after-age,
obsolete;
out of date,
out of fashion,
out of it;
stale,
old-fashioned,
behind the age;
old-world;
exploded;
gone out,
gone by;
passe,
run out;
senile
etc.
128;
time worn;
crumbling
etc.
(deteriorated)
659;
secondhand.
old as the hills,
old as Methuselah,
old as Adam†,
old as history.
[geological eras (list, starting at given number of years bp)]
Archeozoic
[5,000,000,000],
Proterozoic
[1,500,000,000],
Paleozoic
[600,000,000],
Mesozoic
[220,000,000],
Cenozoic
[70,000,000].
[geological periods]
Precambrian,
Cambrian
[600,000,000],
Ordovician
[500,000,000],
Silurian
[440,000,000],
Devonian
[400,000,000],
Mississippian
[350,000,000],
Pennsylvanian
[300,000,000],
Permian
[270,000,000],
Triassic
[220,000,000],
Jurassic
[180,000,000],
Cretaceous
[135,000,000],
Tertiary
[70,000,000],
Paleogene
[70,000,000],
Neocene
[25,0000,000],
Quaternary
[1,000,000].
[geological epochs (list, starting at 70,000,000 years bp)]
Paleocene,
Eocene,
Oligocene,
Miocene,
Pliocene,
Pleistocene,
Recent.
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