Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several large pterosaurs of the genus Pteranodon of the Cretaceous Period, having a long crested head, a scooplike beak, no teeth, and a wingspan of over 8 meters (26 feet).
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The typical genus of Pteranodontidæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Paleon.) A genus of American Cretaceous pterodactyls destitute of teeth. Several species are known, some of which had an expanse of wings of twenty feet or more.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A large
pterosaur ; males had a bonycrest on the back of the head.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Also, he pteranodon in the upper right will have a stopwatch - thus "Overclocked."
More work on the Cory Doctorow painting frankwu 2009
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The pteranodon is one of the most well-known winged dinosaurs.
Archive 2010-06-01 Michael James 2010
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The pteranodon is one of the most well-known winged dinosaurs.
Pteranodon Papercraft | Papercraft Paradise | PaperCrafts | Paper Models | Card Models Michael James 2010
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Every Saturday morning growing up, my wake-up call was the pteranodon in the opening credits of ‘Jonny Quest’.
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Despite pteranodon has been my all time favorite, I've always liked Dimorphodon as well, when I was a kid I used to draw comic strips depicting one of them and it is curious to see that Rachael Revelle did choose almost the same colors I chose for "my" dimorphodon so many years ago.
Life's Time Capsule: Pterosaur Gallery Weapon of Mass Imagination 2009
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There Basil befriends a girl, Louise, and her flying pet pteranodon, Beatrice.
Children's Books 2008
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But in Kong vrai, Kong rescues Fay Wray from a pteranodon, and then fights off the rest of the flock.
Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2006
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Far overhead, the size of a pteranodon, a featherwing beetle, smallest of the insects, drifted along on its cushion of air, wings a throbbing blur, beyond it patches of blue sky in the green veil.
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That was followed by an image of a flying creature that vaguely resembled an Earth pteranodon, then another image of something that Corsi swore was a dead ringer for a Vulcan sehlat, only—based on the house it was standing next to—about ten times the size.
Here There Be Monsters Keith R.A. DeCandido 2001
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That was followed by an image of a flying creature that vaguely resembled an Earth pteranodon, then another image of something that Corsi swore was a dead ringer for a Vulcan sehlat, only—based on the house it was standing next to—about ten times the size.
Here There Be Monsters Keith R.A. DeCandido 2001
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