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plural pterodactyls
(paleontology) A pterosaur, of the genus Pterodactylus.
(informal) Any pterosaur. quotations examples
He described also the iguanodon and the pterodactyl - two of the first of the wonders which they had encountered.
1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton