Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Belonging to the geological subdivision of the Jurassic called the Lias.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Geol.) Of the age of the Lias; pertaining to the Lias formation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective geology Pertaining to
lias .
Etymologies
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From lias.
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Examples
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The legend of his inspiration, however, may be placed beside the story of how the saintly Abbess turned the snakes into the fossil ammonites with which the liassic shores of Whitby are strewn.
Yorkshire Gordon Home 1923
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Soon after this I sketched a new scene for the "Donkey's Skin;" it was one representing the liassic period.
The Story of a Child Pierre Loti 1886
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African oasis some surviving mammoth, some belated megatherium, or some gigantic and misshapen liassic saurian.
Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Grant Allen 1873
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