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archaeopteryx

archaeopteryx is the alternative spelling of archeopteryx.

Meaning of archeopteryx

Noun

archeopteryx (plural archeopteryxes)

  1. A specimen of the species Archaeopteryx lithographica, being the earliest and most primitive known bird, representing a transition in the evolution of dinosaurs to birds.
    • Since Pterosaurians are triassic and the Archæopteryges jurassic we are justified in regarding the actual chronology of external integument in the geological strata as : first, scale ; second, hair ; and third, feather. This inspires us to make a wider appeal to geology in order to have a...1935, Zoological Society of London, Proceedings, page 758

Forms of archaeopteryx

pluralarchaeopteryxes
pluralarchaeopteryges

Questions about archaeopteryx

What is archaeopteryx the alternative spelling of?
Archaeopteryx is the alternative spelling of archeopteryx.

Words near archaeopteryx in the dictionary

  1. archaeopterids
  2. archaeopterodactyloid
  3. archaeopterodactyloids
  4. archaeopterygid
  5. archaeopterygids
  6. archaeopteryx
  7. archaeopteryxes
  8. archaeopyle
  9. archaeopyles
  10. archaeorthopteran
  11. archaeorthopterans

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