Pterodactylic

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of, like, or pertaining to a pterodactyl. not-comparable

    "I did not intend the steed of the Witch-King to be what is now called a 'pterodactyl', and often is drawn (with rather less shadowy evidence than lies behind many monsters of the new and fascinating semi-scientific mythology of the 'Prehistoric'). But obviously it is pterodactylic and owes much to the new mythology, and its description even provides a sort of way in which it could be a last survivor of older geological eras."

  2. 2
    Of, like, or pertaining to any pterosaur; pterosaurian. broadly, not-comparable, proscribed

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"I did not intend the steed of the Witch-King to be what is now called a 'pterodactyl', and often is drawn (with rather less shadowy evidence than lies behind many monsters of the new and fascinating semi-scientific mythology of the 'Prehistoric'). But obviously it is pterodactylic and owes much to the new mythology, and its description even provides a sort of way in which it could be a last survivor of older geological eras."

Etymology

From pterodactyl + -ic.

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