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pycnofiber

pycnofiber is the US standard spelling of pycnofibre.

Meaning of pycnofibre

Noun

pycnofibre (plural pycnofibres)

  1. Any one of the hair-like filaments that comprised an integument of some pterosaurs.
    • While the metal frames, styrofoam bulk and resin wings comprised the majority of the models, the details that would bring them to life – eyes, scars, pycnofibres, scales and colour – needed to be added before the models could really look vital.2012, A. J. Veldmeijer, Mark Witton, Ilja Nieuwland, Pterosaurs: Flying Contemporaries of the Dinosaurs, Sidestone Press, page 119

Forms of pycnofiber

pluralpycnofibers

Questions about pycnofiber

What is pycnofiber the US standard spelling of?
Pycnofiber is the US standard spelling of pycnofibre.

Words near pycnofiber in the dictionary

  1. pycnodontiforms
  2. pycnodonts
  3. pycnodysostoses
  4. pycnodysostosis
  5. pycnodysostotic
  6. pycnofiber
  7. pycnofibers
  8. pycnofibre
  9. pycnofibres
  10. pycnogenol
  11. pycnogenols

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