pterodactyl
English
editEtymology
editFrom French ptérodactyle, a term coined by Cuvier from Ancient Greek πτερόν (pterón, “wing”) + δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “finger”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editpterodactyl (plural pterodactyls)
- A pterosaur of the genus Pterodactylus.
- (loosely, proscribed) Any pterosaur.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
- He described also the iguanodon and the pterodactyl - two of the first of the wonders which they had encountered.
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editTranslations
editinformal term for any pterosaur
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