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Meaning of "pterosaur" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PTEROSAUR

pterosaur  [ˈtɛrəˌsɔː] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PTEROSAUR

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Pterosaur is a noun.
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WHAT DOES PTEROSAUR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

pterosaur

Pterosaur

Pterosaurs were flying reptiles of the clade or order Pterosauria. They existed from the late Triassic to the end of the Cretaceous Period. Pterosaurs are the earliest vertebrates known to have evolved powered flight. Their wings were formed by a membrane of skin, muscle, and other tissues stretching from the ankles to a dramatically lengthened fourth finger. Early species had long, fully toothed jaws and long tails, while later forms had a highly reduced tail, and some lacked teeth. Many sported furry coats made up of hair-like filaments known as pycnofibers, which covered their bodies and parts of their wings. Pterosaurs spanned a wide range of adult sizes, from the very small Nemicolopterus to the largest known flying creatures of all time, including Quetzalcoatlus and Hatzegopteryx. Pterosaurs are often referred to in the popular media and by the general public as flying dinosaurs, but this is incorrect.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PTEROSAUR


allosaur
ˈæləˌsɔː
apatosaur
əˈpætəˌsɔː
archosaur
ˈɑːkəˌsɔː
barosaur
ˈbærəˌsɔː
brontosaur
ˈbrɒntəˌsɔː
carnosaur
ˈkɑːnəˌsɔː
Chickasaw
ˈtʃɪkəˌsɔː
coelurosaur
sɪˈljʊərəˌsɔː
cotylosaur
ˈkɒtɪləˌsɔː
dinosaur
ˈdaɪnəˌsɔː
hadrosaur
ˈhædrəˌsɔː
ichthyosaur
ˈɪkθɪəˌsɔː
mosasaur
ˈməʊsəˌsɔː
plesiosaur
ˈpliːsɪəˌsɔː
quartersaw
ˈkwɔːtəˌsɔː
stegosaur
ˈstɛɡəˌsɔː
teleosaur
ˈtɛlɪəˌsɔː
titanosaur
taɪˈtænəˌsɔː
tyrannosaur
tɪˈrænəˌsɔː
vavasor
ˈvævəˌsɔː

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PTEROSAUR

pteridophilist
pteridophyte
pteridophytic
pteridophytous
pteridosperm
pterin
pterion
pterodactyl
pterodactyle
pteropod
pterosaurian
pterygial
pterygium
pterygoid
pterygoid process
pteryla
pterylae
pterylographic
pterylography
pterylosis

WORDS THAT END LIKE PTEROSAUR

ankylosaur
balisaur
baur
centaur
daur
deinosaur
duck-billed dinosaur
elasmosaur
faur
gaur
Kaur
megalosaur
Minotaur
ornithosaur
pelycosaur
pliosaur
scaur
supersaur
waur
whaur

Synonyms and antonyms of pterosaur in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «pterosaur» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PTEROSAUR

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The translations of pterosaur from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «pterosaur» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

翼龙
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

pterosaurio
570 millions of speakers

English

pterosaur
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

Pterosaur
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الزاحف المجنح حيوان منقرض
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

птерозавров
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pterossauro
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

pterosaur
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

ptérosaure
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pterosaur
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Flugsaurier
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

翼竜
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

익룡
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pterosaur
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

loài dực long
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

pterosaur
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पेटेरोसोर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

pterosaur
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

pterosauro
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pterozaurów
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

птерозаврів
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

pterozaur
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

pterosaur
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

pterosaur
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

PTEROSAURIE
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

pterosaur
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of pterosaur

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PTEROSAUR»

The term «pterosaur» is regularly used and occupies the 66.319 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PTEROSAUR» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about pterosaur

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PTEROSAUR»

Discover the use of pterosaur in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pterosaur and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Pterosaur Trouble
A flying Quetzalcoatlus, stopping at a stream for breakfast, is attacked by small feathered dinosaurs.
Daniel Loxton, 2013
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Pterosaur's Long Flight
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‎1997
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Evolution and Palaeobiology of Pterosaurs
Pterosaur swim tracks and other ichnological evidence of behaviour and ecology MART1N G. LOCKLEY & JOANNA L. WR1GHT Department of Geology, University of Colorado at Denver, PO Box 173364, Denver, Colorado, CO 80217, USA ...
Eric Buffetaut, Jean-Michel Mazin, 2003
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Rotten and Rascal: The Two Terrible Pterosaur Twins
A fabulously funny picture book about two constantly bickering baby dinosaurs with a brilliant and unexpected twist at the end--perfect for squabbling siblings Rotten and Rascal are quarreling twin baby pterosaurs who yell, shout, screech, ...
Paul Geraghty, 2013
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Tom And The Pterosaur
Tom discovers his neighbours are hiding an amazing secret right next door!
Jenny Nimmo, 2007
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Vertebrate Paleontology in Utah
The tracks are the youngest pterosaur footprints known. They are also smaller than most other pterosaurian ichnites of Cretaceous age, thus adding to the growing diversity of pterosaur footprints known from this time period. This discovery ...
David D. Gillette, 1999
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Posture, Locomotion, and Paleoecology of Pterosaurs
One of the unusual features of Scleromochlus is the strong limb disparity where the hindlimb is much longer than the forelimb, indicating that the animal was a bipedal cursor with a digitigrade stance. ln pterosaur ancestry, we would expect the ...
Sankar Chatterjee, R. J. Templin, 2004
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The Alcalde
To compare their brains, Rowe and a research team obtained images of the skulls of a 140 million- and an 80 million-year-old pterosaur using a specialized computed tomography scanner designed for examining rocks and fossils. The skull ...
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New Scientist
Fossils from another site, in the Tatar region of western Mongolia, provide yet more information on pterosaur anatomy. At this site, Nataly Bakhurina found the remains of a large pterosaur called Phobetor. Thes animal was a fish eater, with ...
10
Dinosaur Tracks and Other Fossil Footprints of Europe
SPOOR OF THE PTEROSAUR We have )ust seen that purported pterosaur footprints from the Solnhofen limestone turned out to be the tracks of horseshoe crabs. However, this does not mean that real pterosaur tracks do not exist. In fact  ...
M. G. Lockley, Christian Meyer, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PTEROSAUR»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term pterosaur is used in the context of the following news items.
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Tricky take-offs may have limited pterodactyl size
According to a new computer model, pterosaurs (more commonly known as pterodactyls) had no trouble flying despite their massive size. Taking off, however ... «Washington Post, Nov 14»
2
Ancient 'Dragon' Pterosaur Flew Right Out of 'Avatar'
The pterosaur, dubbed Ikrandraco avatar ("draco" means "dragon" in Latin), may have stored food in a throat pouch like a pelican does, the researchers said. «NBCNews.com, Sep 14»
3
Ancient Toothless Pterosaurs Once Dominated the World's Skies
Giant toothless pterosaurs with wingspans stretching 39 feet (12 meters) across ruled the skies 60 million years ago, and new research suggests that these ... «LiveScience.com, Aug 14»
4
New Desert-Dwelling Pterosaur Unearthed in Brazil
A Brazilian research team has discovered fossils from a new species of pterosaur—the distant, flying reptile cousins of dinosaurs—that lived 75 to 87 million ... «Smithsonian, Aug 14»
5
Colony of Hamipterus tianshanensis provides insight on prehistoric …
Until now, only four pterosaur eggs had ever been found, and all were ... But Chinese scientists said on Thursday they had unearthed five pterosaur eggs ... «CBC.ca, Jun 14»
6
Oldest fossils for line of flying reptiles found
Many of the pterosaurs that came later were enormous, flamboyant or both. The new pterosaur was, at best guess, a plain fellow of modest proportions. «USA TODAY, Apr 14»
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New Golden Age for Pterosaurs, Flying Reptiles of the Dinosaur Era
Paleontologists have known about the existence of pterosaurs since the early days of fossil investigation, but researchers are just now getting to know these ... «National Geographic, Apr 14»
8
English Flying Reptiles Had Brazilian Relatives
The new study is the first comprehensive look at the dizzying array of pterosaur bone fragments found in England. These fossils, which date back to the ... «LiveScience.com, Jun 13»
9
Five-Year-Old Girl Discovers Fossil of Previously Unknown Pterosaur
The new pterosaur, says Jess Zimmerman for Grist, “is not only a previously unknown species, but an unknown genus, making Daisy's find a really big deal.”. «Smithsonian, Mar 13»
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Crow-Size Pterosaur Named After 9-Year-Old Fossil Hunter
The new species of pterosaur—a type of flying reptile that lived alongside the dinosaurs—was dubbed Vectidraco daisymorrisae after U.K. youngster Daisy ... «National Geographic, Mar 13»

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