Definitions for pterodactyl

pterodactyl pter·o·dac·tyl

Spelling: [ter-uh-dak-til]
IPA: /ˌtɛr əˈdæk tɪl/

Pterodactyl is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 1074 anagrams from letters in pterodactyl (acdeloprtty).

Definitions for pterodactyl

noun

  1. any of a number of genera of flying reptiles of the extinct order Pterosauria, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having a highly reduced tail and teeth and a birdlike beak.

Origin of pterodactyl

1820-30; New Latin Pterodactylus genus name, equivalent to Greek pteró(n) wing + -daktylos -dactylous

Examples for pterodactyl

Why it was like the bottom bird in the menagerie putting on airs because its head ancestor was a pterodactyl.

They cast doubt, that is, on the theory that the horse is descended from the pterodactyl.

An extinct pachyderm that flourished when the pterodactyl was in fashion.

On some days I am to myself as strange and unfamiliar as a pterodactyl.

The pterodactyl of the chalk, a flying lizard, measures nearly seventeen feet from tip to tip of its wings.

Now I'll bet there isn't a man here who can spell "pterodactyl," not even the prisoner at the bar.

In pterodactyl and bat the wing is a web-wing or patagium, and a small web is to be seen on the front side of the bird's wing.

He was seated on a woody knoll skinning a pterodactyl for our supper.

You can't say too much for the picturesqueness of the pterodactyl—he was the triumph of his period.

I ponder the selection (pterodactyl, triceratops, etc) before settling on a T-Rex.

Word Value for pterodactyl
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