Cretaceous

See also: cretaceous

English

Etymology

Specific use of cretaceous.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɹəˈteɪ.ʃəs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃəs

Proper noun

Cretaceous

1. (geology) The geologic period within the Mesozoic era that comprises lower and upper epochs from about 146 to 66 million years ago.
   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, pages 3–4:

     As with the Lejeuneaceae, this pattern of massive speciation appears to be correlated with the Cretaceous explosion of the angiosperms and the simultaneous creation of a host of new microenvironments, differing in humidity, light intensity, texture, etc.

Derived terms

• end-Cretaceous

Translations

geologic period within the Mesozoic

• Armenian: Կեղտոտ (Keġtot)
• Azerbaijani: Kretase
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 白堊紀 / 白垩纪 (zh) (Bái'èjì)

• Czech: křída (cs) f
• Dutch: Krijt (nl) n
• Estonian: kriit (et), kriidiajastu
• Finnish: liitukausi (fi)
• French: Crétacé (fr) m
• Galician: Cretáceo (gl) m
• Georgian: ცარცული (carculi), ცარცული პერიოდი (carculi ṗeriodi), ცარცული სისტემა (carculi sisṭema)
• German: Kreide (de) f
• Greek: Κρητιδική (el) f (Kritidikí)
• Hebrew: קְרֶטִיקוֹן (he) m (qretiqón)
• Hungarian: kréta (hu)
• Japanese: 白亜紀 (ja) (はくあき, Hakuaki), 白堊紀 (はくあき, Hakuaki)
• Korean: 백악기 (ko) (Baegakgi)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Цэрдийн галав (Cerdiin galav)

  Mongolian: ᠴᠡᠷᠳᠡ ᠵᠢᠨ
  ᠭᠠᠯᠪᠠ (čerde-ǰin ɣalba)

• Polish: kreda (pl) f
• Portuguese: cretáceo (pt) m
• Russian: мелово́й пери́од (ru) m (melovój períod), мел (ru) m (mel)
• Spanish: Cretáceo (es) m, Cretácico (es) m
• Swedish: krita (sv)
• Turkish: kretase (tr)
• Uyghur: بور دەۋرى (bor dewri)
• Vietnamese: kỉ Crê-ta, kỉ Phấn Trắng

See also

• Appendix:Geologic timescale