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Definition of Flying reptile

1. Noun. An extinct reptile of the Jurassic and Cretaceous having a bird-like beak and membranous wings supported by the very long fourth digit of each forelimb.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Flying Reptile

Literary usage of Flying reptile

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. First Book in Geology by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler (1898)
"Lizard and flying reptile. These are the first very successful land animals : among them we find flying, swimming, and walking forms ; so, for the first ..."

2. Design in Nature: Illustrated by Spiral and Other Arrangements in the by James Bell Pettigrew (1908)
"Bones of the wing of the extinct flying reptile ... The extinct flying reptile (AVi-im^/mr/ii/m-/»«* m ..."

3. Nature Readers: Sea-side and Way-side. No. 1-4 by Julia McNair Wright (1896)
"While its cousins, the biped reptile and the fish reptile, were ravaging the land and sea, the flying reptile, or bat reptile, whichever we choose to call ..."

4. The American Educational Monthly for the School and the Family (1866)
"The rambling that this was a flying reptile feeding upon and discursive style in which they are aquatic animals. 1'rof. Agassiz denies the •written, ..."

5. Catalogue of the Cretaceous fossils in the Brighton museum by Henry Willett (1871)
"cm, Newtimber Sp. foss. gigantic flying reptile ; portion of wing-bone, showing the pneumatic foramen for the admission of hot-air into the cavity of the ..."

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