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pterodactylic

pterodactylic adjective: of, like, or pertaining to a pterodactyl.

Adjective

pterodactylic (not comparable)

  1. Of, like, or pertaining to a pterodactyl.
    • I did not intend the steed of the Witch-King to be what is now called a 'pterodactyl', and often is drawn (with rather less shadowy evidence than lies behind many monsters of the new and fascinating semi-scientific mythology of the 'Prehistoric'). But obviously it is pterodactylic and owes much to...2023 [1981], Tolkien, J. R. R., “#211 to Rhona Beare”, in Carpenter, Humphrey, compiler, The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien Revised and Expanded Edition, New York: HarperCollins, →ISBN, Pterodactyl...
  2. (broadly, proscribed) Of, like, or pertaining to any pterosaur; pterosaurian.

Origin of pterodactylic

From pterodactyl + -ic.

Questions about pterodactylic

What does pterodactylic mean?
Pterodactylic means of, like, or pertaining to a pterodactyl.
What part of speech is pterodactylic?
Pterodactylic is an adjective.

Words near pterodactylic in the dictionary

  1. pterocommatine
  2. pterocommatines
  3. pterodactyl
  4. pterodactylane
  5. pterodactylanes
  6. pterodactylic
  7. pterodactylid
  8. pterodactylids
  9. pterodactyllike
  10. pterodactyloid
  11. pterodactyloids

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