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archaiopteryx

archaiopteryx 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 archaiopteryx

pluralarchaiopteryges

Questions about archaiopteryx

What is archaiopteryx the alternative spelling of?
Archaiopteryx is the alternative spelling of archeopteryx.

Words near archaiopteryx in the dictionary

  1. archaicy
  2. Archainbaud
  3. archaio-
  4. archaiologies
  5. archaiology
  6. archaiopteryx
  7. archaise
  8. archaised
  9. archaiser
  10. archaisers
  11. archaises

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