cretaceous period

1. 1.

   from 135 million to 63 million years ago; end of the age of reptiles; appearance of modern insects and flowering plants

   SynonymsCretaceous

   Broaderperiod

   Part ofMesozoic

Questions about cretaceous period

What does cretaceous period mean?

cretaceous period means "from 135 million to 63 million years ago; end of the age of reptiles; appearance of modern insects and flowering plants".

What is another word for cretaceous period?

Close synonyms include Cretaceous. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cretaceous period a common word?

cretaceous period is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.