View source for pterosaur

==English==
{{wikipedia}}

===Alternative forms===
* {{alter|en|pterosaurus}}

===Etymology===
{{root|en|ine-pro|*peth₂-}}
From {{af|en|ptero-|-saur|lit=wing lizard}}, from {{bor|en|grc|πτερόν|t=feather, wing}} and {{m|grc|σαῦρος|t=lizard, reptile}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/ˈtɛɹəˌsɔɹ/|a=US}}

===Noun===
{{en-noun}}

# Any of several [[flying]] [[reptile]]s, of the [[extinct]] [[order]] †{{taxfmt|Pterosauria|order}}, including the [[pterodactyl]]s. {{defdate|from ''c''. 1860}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2020|author=Shona Husk|title=Close to the Truth|publisher=HarperCollins Australia|isbn=9781489298799| passage=Batsquatch, '''pterosaurs''' and the River Man. She had three weeks in Washington State tracking down the local legends. There was nothing ordinary about her job as the biologist on the television show ''Cryptid or Hoax?''}}

====Translations====
{{trans-top|extinct flying reptile}}
* Catalan: {{t|ca|pterosaure|m}}
* Chinese:
*: Cantonese: {{t|yue|翼龍|tr=jik6 lung4}}
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|翼龍|tr=yìlóng}}
* Czech: {{t|cs|ptakoještěr|m}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|pterosaurus}}, {{t|fi|siipisaurus}}, {{t|fi|lentolisko}}
* French: {{t+|fr|ptérosaure|m}}
* German: {{t+|de|Flugsaurier|m}}, {{t+|de|Pterosaurier}}, {{t|de|Pterosaurus|m}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|pterosauro|m}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|翼竜|tr=よくりゅう, yokuryū|sc=Jpan}}
* Korean: {{t|ko|익룡|sc=Kore}}
* Kurdish:
*: Northern Kurdish: {{t|kmr|pterozor|m}}
* Polish: {{t|pl|pterozaur|m}}, {{t|pl|jaszczur latający|m}}
* Romanian: {{t|ro|pterozaur|m}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|птероза́вр|m}}
* Slovak: {{t|sk|vtákojašter|m}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|pterosaurio|m}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|flygödla|c}}, {{t+|sv|pterosaurie}}
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===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|en|a=aeoprrstu|prosateur}}

{{C|en|Reptiles}}