Flying reptile
Flying reptile noun - An extinct reptile of the Jurassic and Cretaceous having a bird-like beak and membranous wings supported by the very long fourth digit of each forelimb.
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Synonyms for Flying reptile
Pterosaur is a synonym for flying reptile. In some cases you can use "Pterosaur" instead a noun phrase "Flying reptile".
Pterosaur
Pterosaur noun - An extinct reptile of the Jurassic and Cretaceous having a bird-like beak and membranous wings supported by the very long fourth digit of each forelimb.
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Synonyms for Pterosaur
Flying reptile is a synonym for pterosaur. You can use "Flying reptile" instead a noun "Pterosaur".
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- Clash of the Dinosaurs showed obvious signs of this trope, like making Quetzalcoatlus a scaly, flying reptile hunting eagle-style from the air instead of the fur-covered, terrestrial pterosaur it was, and having dinosaurs defending themselves with sonic weapons.
- Obviously, Pterodactylus was the very first flying reptile ever found, and even early paleontologists tended to refer to the whole group as 'pterodactyls' long before the name pterosaur was coined; this explains why pterodactyl has become the stock name of pterosaurs.
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