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cretaceous

/kri'teiʃәs/
BNC频率: 18039
现代语料频率: 25007

中文翻译

a. 白垩系的, 白垩纪的
n. 白垩纪, 白垩系

英文解释

n. from 135 million to 63 million years ago; end of the age of reptiles; appearance of modern insects and flowering plants
a. abounding in chalk
a. of or relating to or denoting the third period of the Mesozoic era

常见例句

1

primitive reptile-like fossil birds of the Jurassic or early Cretaceous

2

A cephalopod of the extinct genus Baculites, found fossil in the Cretaceous rocks

3

fish thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous period but found in 1938 off the coast of Africa

4

of the Cretaceous

5

An extinct, long-necked, marine, cretaceous reptile from Kansas, allied to Plesiosaurus.

相关词组

1

cretaceous oils

[化] 白垩纪石油

2

Cretaceous period

白垩纪

3

cretaceously

adv. cretaceous的变形

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Eocretaceous

[地质]始白垩层

今日更新

更新时间:2025-06-21 13:07:58