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Mesozoic

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Noun

1. age of reptiles, mesozoic, mesozoic era

from 230 million to 63 million years ago

Adjective

2. mesozoic

of or relating to or denoting the Mesozoic era

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Mesozoic

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adjective
1. 
of, denoting, or relating to an era of geological time that began 250 000 000 years ago with the Triassic period and lasted about 185 000 000 years until the end of the Cretaceous period
noun
2.  the Mesozoic

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Mesozoic

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adjective
[sometimes m-]
designating or of the middle geologic era of the Phanerozoic Eon, subdivided into the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods and characterized by the development and extinction of the dinosaurs and the development of the first birds, mammals, and flowering plants

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Mesozoic

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adj.
Of, relating to, or being the era of geologic time from about 251 to 66 million years ago. The Mesozoic Era includes the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous Periods and is characterized by the development of flying reptiles, birds, and flowering plants and by the appearance and extinction of dinosaurs. See Table at geologic time.
n.
The Mesozoic Era.

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