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cretaceous (adj.)
1670s, "chalky," from Latin
cretaceus
"chalk-like," from
creta
"chalk." As a geological period (with a capital
C-
), it was first used 1832. The extensive chalk beds of southeastern England were laid down during the Cretaceous.
