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From ptero- +‎ -saur, literally wing lizard, from Ancient Greek πτερόν (pterón, feather, wing) and σαῦρος (saûros, lizard, reptile).

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pterosaur (plural pterosaurs)

  1. Any of several flying reptiles, of the extinct orderPterosauria, 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?

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