Pterosaur

//ˈtɛɹəˌsɔɹ// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Any flying reptile, of the extinct order †Pterosauria, including the pterodactyls.

    "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?"

  2. 2
    an extinct reptile of the Jurassic and Cretaceous having a bird-like beak and membranous wings supported by the very long fourth digit of each forelimb wordnet

Etymology

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

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