pterosaurus
pterosaurus noun: synonym of pterosaur.
Noun
pterosaurus (plural pterosauruses or pterosauri)
- Synonym of pterosaur.
- The pterosauri flew from tree to tree, spreading out the flying membrane that stretched from their enormously long fifth finger to the legs, and even to the tail.1906, Conrad Guenther, translated by Joseph McCabe, “Reptiles and Amphibians”, in Darwinism and the Problems of Life: A Study of Familiar Animal Life, London: A. Owen & Co. […], page 120
- Now, according to the geological successions, we have, first of all, the invertebrates (Protozoic Epoch—Cambrian Period), then the vertebrates, and these in the following order: first, the Cyclostomes (Silurian), then the cartilaginous fish (Devonian), then the stegocephalian amphibians...1959 April 14, Ernesto Ruffini, translated by Francis O’Hanlon, “Proofs Adduced in Favor of Evolution”, in The Theory of Evolution Judged by Reason and Faith, New York, N.Y.: Joseph F. Wagner, Inc....
- Synonyms:
- pterosaur
Examples of pterosaurus in a sentence
- Or, while marvelling at the ingenuity of Nature, one can sing incantations that cause the clouds to assume fantastic shapes: dinosaurs, glyptodons and pterosauruses frolic across the sky.1987, Alberto Manguel, Gianni Guadalupi, “Dreams, Lake of”, in The Dictionary of Imaginary Places, expanded edition, San Diego, Calif....
- Pterosauruses are giant birds that lived during prehistoric times.1993, Linda Ward Beech; James Beers; Ronald L. Cramer; W. Dorsey Hammond; Lida F. Lim; Patricia Muncy; John Prejza, Jr.; DeWayne Triplett...
- The muscles that pterosauruses used to fly were not as developed as those that birds use today.1994, Debby Slier, Dinosaurs (World of Knowledge), New York, N.Y.: Modern Publishing, →ISBN, page 15, column 2:
- Examples of gerrymandering still abound, with many districts being shaped like forms of animal life, both extinct and contemporary, such as snakes, tadpoles, and pterosauruses.2002, Jacob S. Siegel, “[Some Political Applications of Demographic Data and Methods] Redistricting”, in Applied Demography: Applications...
Synonyms of pterosaurus
Forms of pterosaurus
| plural | pterosauruses |
|---|---|
| plural | pterosauri |
Questions about pterosaurus
- What does pterosaurus mean?
- Pterosaurus means synonym of pterosaur.
- How do you use pterosaurus in a sentence?
- Or, while marvelling at the ingenuity of Nature, one can sing incantations that cause the clouds to assume fantastic shapes: dinosaurs, glyptodons and pterosauruses frolic across the sky.
- What part of speech is pterosaurus?
- Pterosaurus is a noun.
- What is the plural of pterosaurus?
- The plural of pterosaurus is pterosauruses.
Words near pterosaurus in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: pterosaurus (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “pterosaurus.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/pterosaurus. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
