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pterodactyl|tɛrəʊˈdæktɪl|
Also † -yle.
[ad. mod.L. Pterodactylus, f. Gr. πτερόν wing + δάκτυλος finger.]
1. Palæont. A winged reptile or pterosaur of the extinct genus Pterodactylus.
1830Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 123 The pterodactyle might flit again through umbrageous groves of tree-ferns. 1873Dawson Earth & Man viii. 205 The Pterodactyles, the reptile bats of the Mesozoic. 1882Geikie Text-bk. Geol. vi. iii. iii. §2. 813 The earliest known birds present characters of strong affinity with the Deinosaurs and Pterodactyles.
attrib.1883Century Mag. Dec. 201/1 Colossal monsters of the Pterodactyl period.
2. Aeronaut. Also Pterodactyl. An obsolete kind of tailless pusher aeroplane with swept-back wings and a very short fuselage.
1926G. T. R. Hill in Jrnl. R. Aeronaut. Soc. XXX. 528 During the summer of 1925, all outstanding design questions were finally settled, and I therefore propose..to give a more detailed description of the main features of the aeroplane, which I have called the Pterodactyl, on account of its supposed resemblance to the prehistoric lizards of that breed. 1935Jrnl. R. Aeronaut. Soc. XXXIX. 823 A recent proposal for a large tailless flying boat having a pterodactyl wing plus stubs. 1960C. H. Gibbs-Smith Aeroplane xiii. 103 The Pterodactyls contributed to a development culminating in the swept-back and delta-wing forms of today.
Hence pterodactylian |tɛrəʊdækˈtɪlɪən| a., of or belonging to the pterodactyl, or the genus Pterodactylus; n., an animal of this genus; pterodacˈtylic, pteroˈdactylous adjs., of the nature of a pterodactyl; pteroˈdactylid, an animal of the pterodactyl family; pteroˈdactyloid a., having the form or characters of a pterodactyl.
1858Mayne Expos. Lex., Pterodactylous. 1884Daily News 2 Sept. 2/2 The very pterodactylic-looking blue-clad fishers. 1890Cent. Dict., Pterodactylian. 1895Funk's Stand. Dict., Pterodactylid, -oid. |
