Mesozoic
pronunciation
How to pronounce Mesozoic in British English:
UK [ˌmesəʊ'zəʊɪk]
How to pronounce Mesozoic in American English:
US [ˌmesoʊ'zoʊɪk]
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- Noun:
- from 230 million to 63 million years ago
Word Origin
- Mesozoic (adj.)
- 1840, from Greek mesos "middle" (see meso-) + zoe "life" (see zoo) + -ic. Name coined by British geologist John Phillips for the fossil era "between" the Paleozoic and the Cenozoic.
Example
- 1. The mesozoic land was dominated by dinosaurs .
- 2. But the mesozoic , too , began with a mass extinction .
- 3. They occupied a position in the mesozoic oceans similar to that of modern squid .
- 4. It is thus possible that the same was applicable to mesozoic predators as well .
- 5. That these mesozoic marine reptiles , contemporaries of the dinosaurs , got the bends can be seen from their bones .