pterosaur

English

Alternative forms

• pterosaurus

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛɹəˌsɔɹ/

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

extinct flying reptile

• Catalan: pterosaure m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 翼龍／翼龙 (jik⁶ lung⁴)

  Mandarin: 翼龍／翼龙 (zh) (yìlóng)

• Czech: ptakoještěr m
• Finnish: pterosaurus, siipisaurus, lentolisko
• French: ptérosaure (fr) m
• German: Flugsaurier (de) m, Pterosaurier (de), Pterosaurus m
• Italian: pterosauro (it) m
• Japanese: 翼竜 (ja) (よくりゅう, yokuryū)
• Korean: 익룡 (ingnyong)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: pterozor m

• Polish: pterozaur m, jaszczur latający m
• Romanian: pterozaur m
• Russian: птероза́вр (ru) m (pterozávr)
• Slovak: vtákojašter m
• Spanish: pterosaurio (es) m
• Swedish: flygödla (sv) c, pterosaurie (sv)

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