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# pterodactyl

«pterodactyl» in Mova's school dictionary: **a flying reptile that lived at the time of the dinosaurs…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a pterodactyl, pterodactyls)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A pterodactyl is a flying reptile that lived at the time of the dinosaurs, with wings made of skin stretched from a long finger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pterodactyl/#m1)

2) In everyday talk, any flying reptile from that time (a pterosaur) is often called a pterodactyl. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pterodactyl/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science and history lessons it appears with dinosaurs and fossils; strictly it was not a dinosaur and not a bird. Phrases: a pterodactyl fossil, flying reptiles.

### examples

- The pterodactyl soared over the sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pterodactyl/#x1)
- A pterodactyl was not a dinosaur, but it lived with them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pterodactyl/#x2)
- We saw a pterodactyl skeleton at the museum. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pterodactyl/#x3)
- Pterodactyls had wings of skin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pterodactyl/#x4)
- My little brother screeched like a pterodactyl. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pterodactyl/#x5)
- Pterodactyls died out about 66 million years ago. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pterodactyl/#x6)

### note

Say ter-uh-DAK-til; the p is silent. «Ptero» means wing, «dactyl» means finger. Myth: pterodactyls were not dinosaurs and are not ancestors of birds.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «pterodactyl» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pterodactyl/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.