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pterosaur

English

Alternative forms

  • pterosaurus

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (pterón, “wing”) +?????? (saûros, “lizard”), literally translating to "wing lizard".

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /?t????s??/

Noun

pterosaur (plural pterosaurs)

  1. Any of several flying reptiles, of the extinct order Pterosauria, including the pterodactyls. [from c. 1860]
    • 2020, Shona Husk, Close to the Truth, HarperCollins Australia (?ISBN)
      Batsquatch, pterosaurs and the River Man. She had three weeks in Washington State tracking down the local legends. There was nothing ordinary about her job as the biologist on the television show Cryptid or Hoax?


Translations

Anagrams

  • prosateur

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pterodactyl

English

Etymology

From French ptérodactyle, a term coined by Cuvier from Ancient Greek ?????? (pterón, wing) + ???????? (dáktulos, finger).

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /?t????dæktl?/, /?t????dækt?l/

Noun

pterodactyl (plural pterodactyls)

  1. (paleontology) A pterosaur in the genus Pterodactylus.
  2. (informal) Any pterosaur.

Related terms

  • pterosaur

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