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pterodactyls

pterodactyls is the plural of pterodactyl.

Meaning of pterodactyl

Noun

pterodactyl (plural pterodactyls)

  1. (countable) A pterosaur of the genus Pterodactylus.
  2. (broadly, proscribed) Any pterosaur.
    • 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, →OCLC

Questions about pterodactyls

What is pterodactyls the plural of?
Pterodactyls is the plural of pterodactyl.

Words near pterodactyls in the dictionary

  1. pterodactylid
  2. pterodactylids
  3. pterodactyllike
  4. pterodactyloid
  5. pterodactyloids
  6. pterodactyls
  7. pteroenone
  8. pterographic
  9. pterographical
  10. pterography
  11. pteroic acid

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