Usually means: Extinct flying reptile with wings.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word pterodactyl:

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  1. pterodactyl: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pterodactyl: Merriam-Webster
  3. pterodactyl: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pterodactyl: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pterodactyl: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pterodactyl: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pterodactyl, pterodactyl: Wordnik
  8. pterodactyl: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Pterodactyl: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. pterodactyl: Wiktionary
  11. pterodactyl: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. pterodactyl: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. pterodactyl: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. pterodactyl: Dictionary.com
  15. pterodactyl: Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. Pterodactyl (disambiguation), Pterodactyl (film), Pterodactyl: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Pterodactyl: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. pterodactyl: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. pterodactyl: Rhymezone
  20. Pterodactyl: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. pterodactyl: FreeDictionary.org
  22. pterodactyl: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. pterodactyl: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pterodactyl: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. the pterodactyl: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See pterodactyling as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A pterosaur of the genus Pterodactylus.
noun:  (loosely, proscribed) Any pterosaur.

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