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- English Word Pterocletes Definition A division of birds including the sand grouse. They are in some respects intermediate between the pigeons and true grouse. Called also Pteroclomorphae.
- English Word Pterodactyl Definition An extinct flying reptile; one of the Pterosauria. See Illustration in Appendix.
- English Word Pterodactyli Definition Same as Pterosauria.
- English Word Pteroglossal Definition Having the tongue finely notched along the sides, so as to have a featherlike appearance, as the toucans.
- English Word Pteron Definition The region of the skull, in the temporal fossa back of the orbit, where the great wing of the sphenoid, the temporal, the parietal, and the frontal hones approach each other.
- English Word Pteropappi Definition Same as Odontotormae.
- English Word Pterophore Definition Any moth of the genus Pterophorus and allied genera; a plume moth. See Plume moth, under Plume.
- English Word Pteropod Definition One of the Pteropoda.
- English Word Pteropoda Definition A class of Mollusca in which the anterior lobes of the foot are developed in the form of broad, thin, winglike organs, with which they swim at near the surface of the sea.
- English Word Pteropodous Definition Of or pertaining to the Pteropoda.
- English Word Pterosaur Definition A pterodactyl.
- English Word Pterosauria Definition An extinct order of flying reptiles of the Mesozoic age; the pterodactyls; -- called also Pterodactyli, and Ornithosauria.
- English Word Pterosaurian Definition Of or pertaining to the Pterosauria.
- English Word Pterostigma Definition A thickened opaque spot on the wings of certain insects.
- English Word Pterostigmata Definition of Pterostigma
- English Word Pterotic Definition Of or pertaining to, or designating, a bone between the prootic and epiotic in the dorsal and outer part of the periotic capsule of many fishes.
- English Word Pterotic Definition The pterotic bone.
- English Word Pterygia Definition of Pterygium
- English Word Pterygium Definition A superficial growth of vascular tissue radiating in a fanlike manner from the cornea over the surface of the eye.
- English Word Pterygiums Definition of Pterygium