Word Meanings - CRETACEOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having the qualities of chalk;abounding with chalk; chalky; as, cretaceous rocks and formations. See Chalk. Cretaceous acid, an old name for carbonic acid. -- Cretaceous formation , the series of strata of various kinds, including beds of chalk,

Additional info about word: CRETACEOUS

Having the qualities of chalk;abounding with chalk; chalky; as, cretaceous rocks and formations. See Chalk. Cretaceous acid, an old name for carbonic acid. -- Cretaceous formation , the series of strata of various kinds, including beds of chalk, green sand, etc., formed in the Cretaceous period; -- called also the chalk formation. See the Diagram under Geology. -- Cretaceous period , the time in the latter part of the Mesozoic age during which the Cretaceous formation was deposited.

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• HAVENER
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• HAVELOCK
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• SERIES MOTOR
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  A man who digs chalk.
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• HAVEN
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  The turns in a series circuit.
• ABOUND
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• CHALK
  A soft, earthy substance, of a white, grayish, or yellowish white color, consisting of calcium carbonate, and having the same composition as common limestone.
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• MONOCARBONIC
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• MALCONFORMATION
  Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; ill form; disproportion of parts.
• DEFORMATION
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