WordNet
n. extinct flying reptile of the Jurassic and Cretaceous having a birdlike beak and membranous wings supported by the very long fourth digit of each forelimb [syn: pterosaur]
Usage examples of "flying reptile".
The birds undertook a similar pro-and were similarly overshadowed by their flying reptile cousins.
A flying reptile had emerged from one of the windowlike openings that marked the mountain's dead black upper slope.
The birds undertook a similar program, and were similarly overshadowed by their flying reptile cousins.
The parchment upon which the spell was inked had been made from the scaled skin of a flying reptile thought long extinct from the world of men.
Their column had progressed only a few yards when the flying reptile that had tried to snatch the mammal spotted them and with expert glide swooped down, catching one in its beak, taking it to its hungry young.
He immediately saw that he would not be able to reach the wizard before the flying reptile would intercept him.
The witch who was a flying reptile approached the scene of carnage and flapped down to perch on a shelf high above it all.
They had not flown far before the young man noticed that a flying reptile was following them.
It was without doubt a flying reptile but it also resembled a bird.
And ever ahead of her, pitching on the swells, the mysterious green galley rowed and sailed, her two triangular sails set wing-and-wing, like the leathery pinions of some flying reptile of old.