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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. Synonym: pterosaur.

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"Flying reptile" Quotes from Famous Books

... Age, or age of plant life, they did not attain their greatest development until Jurassic and Cretaceous times, when many were of prodigious size and ruled the world. The gigantic ichthyosaurs, mesosaurs, and dinosaurs held dominion over the sea and land, and the monster flying reptile, the ...

— Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania • Jewett Castello Gilson

Words linked to "Flying reptile" : archosaur, archosaurian reptile, order Pterosauria, Pterosauria, pterodactyl, archosaurian