Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of extinct pterosaurian reptiles, or pterodactyls: so called from the fact that their teeth were of two kinds, the anterior long, the posterior mostly very short.
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Examples
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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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You will, no doubt, have the opportunity of describing in the Field how you brought down the rocketing dimorphodon.
The Lost World 1912
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The two professors, their tempers aggravated no doubt by their injuries, had fallen out as to whether our assailants were of the genus pterodactylus or dimorphodon, and high words had ensued.
The Lost World 1912
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You will, no doubt, have the opportunity of describing in the Field how you brought down the rocketing dimorphodon.
The Lost World Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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The two professors, their tempers aggravated no doubt by their injuries, had fallen out as to whether our assailants were of the genus pterodactylus or dimorphodon, and high words had ensued.
The Lost World Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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"Here," said he, pointing to the picture of an extraordinary flying monster, "is an excellent reproduction of the dimorphodon, or pterodactyl, a flying reptile of the Jurassic period.
The Lost World 1912
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"Here," said he, pointing to the picture of an extraordinary flying monster, "is an excellent reproduction of the dimorphodon, or pterodactyl, a flying reptile of the Jurassic period.
The Lost World Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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