Jurassic

Etymology
Borrowed from, named for the discovery and type location in the Mountains of Switzerland.

Adjective

 * 1)  Of or pertaining to the second period of the Mesozoic era, a time still dominated by dinosaurs.
 * 2) Of or pertaining to the people or region near the Jura Mountain Range of Europe.
 * 3)  Very old-fashioned and outdated.
 * 1)  Very old-fashioned and outdated.
 * 1)  Very old-fashioned and outdated.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: юрски
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * Galician:
 * Hebrew:
 * Irish: Iúrasach
 * Macedonian: јурски
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: юрийн
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Turkish: Jura

Proper noun

 * 1)  The period from 201.3±0.2 to 145 million years ago, after the Triassic and before the Cretaceous; the geologic systems of this period.
 * 2) * D. M. Kermack, K. A. Kermack, The Evolution of Mammalian Characters:
 * [p 108] Like the Forest Marble Beds in the Middle Jurassic, the Purbeck Beds of the Upper Jurassic are deltaic or estuarine in origin, so as well as mammals they contain small, presumably freshwater, crocodiles and the first indisputable lizards.
 * [p 109] This is less surprising if it is recalled that in the Upper Jurassic, Europe and North America were joined to form Laurasia and the Atlantic Ocean still had to be formed [...]

Hypernyms

 * - eon; Mesozoic - era

Hyponyms

 * ,, - epochs; series

Coordinate terms

 * (preceding), Cretaceous (succeeding) - periods; systems

Translations

 * Arabic: اَلْعَصْر اَلْجُورَاسِيّ
 * Bulgarian: юра
 * Catalan: juràssic
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Estonian: juura
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: Tréimhse Iúrasach, Iúrasach
 * Japanese:, 侏羅紀
 * Korean: 쥐라기
 * Macedonian: јура
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: Юрийн галав
 * Mongolian: ᠶᠦᠷ ᠦᠨ ᠭᠠᠯᠪᠠ
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish: Jura
 * Vietnamese: kỉ Giu-ra