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# pterosaur

«pterosaur» in Mova's school dictionary: **A pterosaur was a flying reptile that lived at the time…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a pterosaur, pterosaurs)

### meaning for a pupil

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

### sense in the lessons

In science and history lessons, pterosaurs like Pteranodon and Quetzalcoatlus flew over the dinosaurs; some were as big as a small plane. They are not dinosaurs and not birds — they are close cousins of dinosaurs. They died out with the dinosaurs.

### examples

- A pterosaur glided over the sea looking for fish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pterosaur/#x1)
- Quetzalcoatlus was a giant pterosaur. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pterosaur/#x2)
- Pterosaurs had wings made of skin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pterosaur/#x3)
- A pterosaur is not a dinosaur. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pterosaur/#x4)
- We found a pterosaur in the museum. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pterosaur/#x5)
- Some pterosaurs had big crests on their heads. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pterosaur/#x6)

### note

The «p» is silent: «TERR-uh-sor». Common trap: calling them «flying dinosaurs». Birds came from dinosaurs; pterosaurs did not become birds.

### In the corpora

- [The largest fliers ever, pterosaurs like Quetzalcoatlus, had wings about 10 metres across but were light, with hollow bones.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/146-shrek-s-dragon-real-dragons-and-lizards/14/)
- [So the flying pterosaurs and the swimming plesiosaurs, mosasaurs and ichthyosaurs were not dinosaurs, even though they lived at the same time.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/270-not-dinosaurs-pterosaurs-plesiosaurs-mosasaurs-mary-anning/1/)
- [A pterosaur wing was skin stretched from a very long fourth finger.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/270-not-dinosaurs-pterosaurs-plesiosaurs-mosasaurs-mary-anning/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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