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Pterodactyl

noun
1.
Extinct flying reptile.



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genus Pterodactylus


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"Pterodactyl" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Hawaiian notion of a mo'o was derived from objects present in his island home. The word mo'o may have been a coinage of the Hawaiian speechcenter, but the thing it stood for must have been an actual existence, like the python and cobra of India, or the pterodactyl of a past geologic period. May we not think of it as an ancestral memory, an impress, ...
— Unwritten Literature of Hawaii - The Sacred Songs of the Hula • Nathaniel Bright Emerson


Words linked to "Pterodactyl" :   flying reptile, pterosaur


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