Triassic
pronunciation
How to pronounce Triassic in British English:
UK [traɪ'æsɪk]
How to pronounce Triassic in American English:
US [traɪˈæsɪk]
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- Noun:
- from 230 million to 190 million years ago; dinosaurs, marine reptiles; volcanic activity
Word Origin
- Triassic (adj.)
- 1841, from German, coined 1841 by German geologist Friedrich August von Alberti (1795-1878), from Trias "period preceding the Jurassic," from Greek trias "triad, the number three" (see triad). So called because it is divisible (in Germany) into three groups.
Example
- 1. The reptile isn 't a triassic leftover , but the last remaining part of a varied and long-lived lineage .
- 2. Division and correlation of the triassic chara-bearing strata of china .
- 3. Faults , breakpoints , and the triassic reflection configurations are readily recognized .
- 4. Conodonts went extinct at the end of the triassic period , about the time dinosaurs were evolving .
- 5. Any of various extinct lungfishes of the genus ceratodus , of the triassic and cretaceous periods .