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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
Jurassic
 
SYLLABICATION:Ju·ras·sic
PRONUNCIATION:  j-rsk
ADJECTIVE: Of or belonging to the geologic time, rock series, or sedimentary deposits of the second period of the Mesozoic Era, in which dinosaurs continued to be the dominant land fauna and the earliest birds appeared. See table at geologic time.
NOUN: The Jurassic Period or its system of deposits.
ETYMOLOGY:French jurassique, after the Jura (Mountains).
 
 
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