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Definition of Pterodactyls
1. pterodactyl [n] - See also: pterodactyl
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pterodactyls
Literary usage of Pterodactyls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Design in Nature: Illustrated by Spiral and Other Arrangements in the by James Bell Pettigrew (1908)
"The Wings of pterodactyls are produced not by dwarfing or obliterating original
... The pterodactyls, like insecte, birds, and bate, are to be regarded as ..."
2. The New International Encyclopædia by Daniel Colt Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"There are about twenty different genera of pterodactyls, all included in the order
... The pterodactyls have skeletons of light but firm construction with ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1902)
"In the early pterodactyls there were three or four sacral vertebrae; ... It thus
would seem that some or all pterodactyls walked erect when upon the ground, ..."
4. Popular Science Monthly (1901)
"The concluding chapters contain a discussion of the relations and origin of the
pterodactyls and, from what has been said in other parts of the book, ..."
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