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Meanings of Cretaceous in English

Russian
мел
Portuguese
cretácico
Spanish
cretácico
Catalan
cretàcic
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Third and last period of the Mesozoic era.

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мел

Cretaceous.

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Examples for "cretaceous period"
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The hard siliceous mineral had been torn loose from chalk deposits laid down during the cretaceous period.
The Valley of Horses
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Dinosaurs had died out in the Cretaceous period, sixty-five million years ago.
Jurassic Park
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This species roamed what is now Central Asia during the Cretaceous period.
Reuters
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And thirdly, during the Cretaceous period, it was once covered by swamps.
The South African
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In the Cretaceous Period, much of this part of the country was underwater.
Wired

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Dinosaurs had died out in the Cretaceous period, sixty-five million years ago.
Jurassic Park
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This species roamed what is now Central Asia during the Cretaceous period.
Reuters
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There are some very remarkable instances of this in the Cretaceous deposits.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 / A Magazi...
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Baron Ether spends six years in the Cretaceous due to time-traveling accident.
Soon I will be invincible
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Jurassic and Cretaceous beds form the greater part of the Mesozoic band.
The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
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Tyrant dinosaur evolution tracks the rise and fall of Late Cretaceous oceans.
The Guardian
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Until 1938, people thought the coelacanth had been extinct since the Cretaceous.
Wild Thing
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That's what spoiled Cretaceous-era dinosaur DNA and Neolithic remains found in Spain.
Wired
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And thirdly, during the Cretaceous period, it was once covered by swamps.
The South African
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Impacts of the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution and KPg Extinction on Mammal Diversification.
The Guardian
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Mesozoic, although their ancestral lines may be followed back into the Cretaceous.
The Elements of Geology
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I looked like a fearful Cretaceous mammal peering out of a cave.
Internecine
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They appear in Europe and North America in the earliest Cretaceous.
The Story of Evolution
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Deposits probably of late Cretaceous or early Eocene period, judging from associated specimens.
The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft
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The family appeared in the Upper Cretaceous and became extinct at its close.
The Elements of Geology
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Of the insects we have very little trace in the Cretaceous.
The Story of Evolution