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Pterodactylus

Definition: Pterodactylus

Pterodactylus

Noun

1. A reptile genus of Pterodactylidae.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "Pterodactylus" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1912. (references)


Synonym: Pterodactylus

Synonym: genus Pterodactylus (n). (additional references)

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Expression: Pterodactylus

Expression using "Pterodactylus": genus Pterodactylus. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Pterodactylus

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

pterodactylus

5
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Anagrams: Pterodactylus

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-l-o-p-r-s-t-t-u-y"

-1 letter: pterodactyls.

-2 letters: pterodactyl.

-3 letters: peculators, pelycosaur, plutocrats, postulated, speculator, sporulated.

-4 letters: aeroducts, astrocyte, autolysed, autotypes, calotypes, calypters, clepsydra, clodpates, copulated, copulates, copyreads, cordately, croustade, desultory, educators, eucalypts, lustrated, octuplets, osculated, outcapers, outlasted, outplayed, outprayed, outspread, outstared, outstayed, outtrades, pectorals, peculator, plutocrat, postulate, poulardes, spectator, spluttery, sporulate, sprattled, tetrapods, upstarted.

-5 letters: acolytes, adopters, adultery, aeroduct, apterous.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Pterodactylus


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01110100 01100101 01110010 01101111 01100100 01100001 01100011 01110100 01111001 01101100 01110101 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0074 0065 0072 006F 0064 0061 0063 0074 0079 006C 0075 0073

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Expressions
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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