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Definition: Pterodactyl |
PterodactylNoun1. Extinct flying reptile. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pterodactyl" was first used: 1830. (references) |
Crosswords: Pterodactyl |
| Specialty definitions using "pterodactyl": Deinotherium. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The name derives from the Greek words ptero (winged) and dactyl (finger). Like all pterosaurs, pterodactyl's wing streached from its last finger to its torso, and was internaly supported by collogen ridges.
See also Pterosaur.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pterodactyl."
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Screenplays | I gave birth to a pterodactyl. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) This? Why, I can make a hat or a brooch or a pterodactyl - (Airplane!; writing credit: Jim Abrahams; David Zucker) | |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | DEINOTHERIUM, n. An extinct pachyderm that flourished when the Pterodactyl was in fashion. The latter was a native of Ireland, its name being pronounced Terry Dactyl or Peter O'Dactyl, as the man pronouncing it may chance to have heard it spoken or seen it printed. |
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| "Pterodactyl" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pterodactyl" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "pterodactyl": seraph-pterodactyl. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
pterodactyl | 64 |
pterodactyl picture | 8 |
pterodactyl skeleton | 2 |
model pterodactyl | 2 |
pterodactyl dinosaur | 2 |
pterodactyl pterosaurs | 2 |
pterodactyl ultralight | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "pterodactyl"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الزاحف المجنح حيوان منقرض (pterosaur). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | птеродактил. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | Pterodactylus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | ptérodactyle. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | pterodaktylus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πτεροδάκτυλοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szárnyas gyík, őskori szárnyas gyík. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | pterodattillo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | erodactylptay pterodáctilo. (various references) pterodactil. (various references) птеродактиль (ornithosaurian). (various references) pterodaktil. (various references) pterodáctilo. (various references) pterodactyl, flygödla. (various references) птеродактиль (ornithosaurian). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | pteron. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "pterodactyl": pterodactyls. (additional references) | |
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"Pterodactyl" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pteradactyl, pteridactyl, pterodactil, pterodactly, pterodactyle, tridactyl, tridactyla. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "pterodactyl" (pronounced 'Pter`o*dac"tyl'): Butyl, Cetyl, Hemidactyl, heterodactyl, Leptodactyl, Macrodactyl, Octyl, Pachydactyl, Pentyl, Perissodactyl. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-l-o-p-r-t-t-y" | |
-2 letters: cordately. | |
-3 letters: calotype, calypter, clattery, clodpate, copyread, pectoral, petalody, portaled, prattled, tetrapod. | |
-4 letters: acolyte, adeptly, adopter, calotte, caloyer, caltrop, caroled, cattery, clatter, clotted, coapted, cordate, cryptal, decrypt, delator, detract, dottrel, droplet, ectypal, leopard, leotard, located, locater, lottery, lyrated, paletot, paroled, partlet, peartly, pedlary, pedocal, peytral, platted, platter, plectra, plotted, plotter, polecat, pottery, prattle. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-l-o-p-r-t-t-y" | |
+1 letter: pterodactyls. | |
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