pterosaur

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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/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

pterosaur (plural pterosaurs)

1. Any flying reptile, 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?

Derived terms

• eopterosaur

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 Slovene: pterozaver m Spanish: pterosaurio (es) m Swedish: flygödla (sv) c, pterosaurie (sv)

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