jura
Speech parts
1. jura - Noun
2. Jura - Proper noun
Meaning
1. A range of mountains between France and Switzerland.
The Jurassic period. See Jurassic.
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
Antonyms
Phrases with the word
Anagrams
Examples
Apart from a visit to Jura in the new year he stayed in London for one of the coldest British winters on record and with such a national shortage of fuel that he burnt his furniture and his child's toys.
All natural reserves of the Polish Jura Chain are part of the CORINE biotopes programme due to their unique flora, fauna, geomorphology and landscape.
At the time when the limestones and dolomites of the White Jura were being deposited, this sea was divided into sponge reefs and intervening lagoons.
After this, he boarded a boat, and headed to England. citation After a short stay there, he moved to Switzerland where he joined the Jura Federation.
Between the Vosges range of mountains to the north and the Jura range to the south, the landscape consists of rolling cultivated fields, dense pine forest, and rampart-like mountains.
Evidence of modern humans, similarly dated, has been found in caves in the Swabian Jura near Ulm.