Definitions for pterosaur

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pterosaur pter·o·saur

Spelling: [ter-uh-sawr]

IPA: /ˈtɛr əˌsɔr/

Pterosaur is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 683 anagrams from letters in pterosaur (aeoprrstu).

Definitions for pterosaur

noun

1. any flying reptile of the extinct order Pterosauria, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having the outside digit of the forelimb greatly elongated and supporting a wing membrane.

Origin of pterosaur

1860-65; New Latin Pterosauria; see ptero-, -saur

Examples for pterosaur

The last, and perhaps the most interesting, of the doomed monsters of the Mesozoic was the pterosaur, or "flying reptile."