pterodactyl
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French ptérodactyle, a term coined by Cuvier from Ancient Greek πτερόν (pterón, “wing”) + δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “finger”).
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Noun[edit]
pterodactyl (plural pterodactyls)
- (paleontology) A pterosaur, of the genus Pterodactylus.
- (informal) 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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Translations[edit]
informal term for any pterosaur
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