Definitions for pterodactyls

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pterodactyls pter·o·dac·tyl

Spelling: [ter-uh-dak-til]

IPA: /ˌtɛr əˈdæk tɪl/

Pterodactyls is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 2145 anagrams from letters in pterodactyls (acdeloprstty).

Definitions for pterodactyls

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.
2. 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 pterodactyls

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

Examples for pterodactyls

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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