Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A series of two or more often fossilized tracks made by the feet, tail, or other body parts of an animal.
- noun A path made by repeated use of the same land.
- noun A set of railway tracks along with adjacent land or support structures.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A tramway.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Any of two or more narrow paths, of steel, smooth stone, or the like, laid in a public roadway otherwise formed of an inferior pavement, as cobblestones, to provide an easy way for wheels.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A set of
footprints left in soft ground by a human or animal; especially such afossilized track
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Examples
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The trackway, which is preserved in sandstone, consists of three rows of crescent shaped footprints on each side of a central groove.
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The trackway, which is preserved in sandstone, consists of three rows of crescent shaped footprints on each side of a central groove.
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The trackway, which is preserved in sandstone, consists of three rows of crescent shaped footprints on each side of a central groove.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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The trackway, which is preserved in sandstone, consists of three rows of crescent shaped footprints on each side of a central groove.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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The trackway, which is preserved in sandstone, consists of three rows of crescent shaped footprints on each side of a central groove
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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The trackway, which is preserved in sandstone, consists of three rows of crescent shaped footprints on each side of a central groove.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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The trackway, which is preserved in sandstone, consists of three rows of crescent shaped footprints on each side of a central groove
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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The trackway, which is preserved in sandstone, consists of three rows of crescent shaped footprints on each side of a central groove.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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The trackway, which is preserved in sandstone, consists of three rows of crescent shaped footprints on each side of a central groove
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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The trackway, which is preserved in sandstone, consists of three rows of crescent shaped footprints on each side of a central groove
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
bilby commented on the word trackway
"Paleontologists have just identified the world's first known landing trackway for a pterodactyloid pterosaur. This prehistoric flying reptile was so powerful that it needed several steps when landing to stop its forward momentum, according to a new study. The trackway, described in the latest Proceedings of the Royal Society B, provides a rare look at how these dinosaur-era animals behaved."
- Jennifer Viegas, Pterodactyl's Power Revealed by Landing Path, discovery.com, 19 August 2009.
August 20, 2009
reesetee commented on the word trackway
Ha! Great minds, bilby. See ptero's profile page. :-)
August 20, 2009