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# mesozoic

«mesozoic» in Mova's school dictionary: **a long stretch of Earth's history, from about 252 million…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (Mesozoic); noun (the Mesozoic — the era)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The Mesozoic is a long stretch of Earth's history, from about 252 million to 66 million years ago, often called the Age of Dinosaurs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mesozoic/#m1)

2) Belonging to that time: Mesozoic rocks, Mesozoic reptiles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mesozoic/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used in science lessons about fossils, dinosaurs and the timeline of life on Earth. It is split into three periods: the Triassic, the Jurassic and the Cretaceous. It ended when an asteroid hit Earth and most dinosaurs died out. Phrases: the Mesozoic era, Mesozoic fossils.

### examples

- Dinosaurs lived in the Mesozoic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mesozoic/#x1)
- The Mesozoic era had three periods. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mesozoic/#x2)
- Our class made a timeline of the Mesozoic along the corridor wall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mesozoic/#x3)
- The first birds appeared in the Mesozoic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mesozoic/#x4)
- Mesozoic rocks on the Jurassic Coast are full of ammonites. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mesozoic/#x5)
- Flowering plants spread near the end of the Mesozoic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mesozoic/#x6)
- Humans did not live in the Mesozoic at all. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mesozoic/#x7)

### note

Usually written with a capital M: the Mesozoic. Say «mez-oh-ZOH-ik». Myth trap: cartoons show cavemen with dinosaurs, but the Mesozoic ended about 66 million years before the first humans. In timeline sums: 252 − 66 = 186 million years long.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «mesozoic» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mesozoic/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.