pterosaur

«pterosaur» in Mova's school dictionary: A pterosaur was a flying reptile that lived at the time… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a pterosaur, pterosaurs)

meaning for a pupil

A pterosaur was a flying reptile that lived at the time of the dinosaurs, with wings of skin stretched from a very long finger. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science and history lessons, pterosaurs like Pteranodon and Quetzalcoatlus flew over the dinosaurs; some were as big as a small plane. They are not dinosaurs and not birds — they are close cousins of dinosaurs. They died out with the dinosaurs.

examples

• A pterosaur glided over the sea looking for fish. tree →
• Quetzalcoatlus was a giant pterosaur. tree →
• Pterosaurs had wings made of skin. tree →
• A pterosaur is not a dinosaur. tree →
• We found a pterosaur in the museum. tree →
• Some pterosaurs had big crests on their heads. tree →

note

The «p» is silent: «TERR-uh-sor». Common trap: calling them «flying dinosaurs». Birds came from dinosaurs; pterosaurs did not become birds.

In the corpora

• The largest fliers ever, pterosaurs like Quetzalcoatlus, had wings about 10 metres across but were light, with hollow bones.
• So the flying pterosaurs and the swimming plesiosaurs, mosasaurs and ichthyosaurs were not dinosaurs, even though they lived at the same time.
• A pterosaur wing was skin stretched from a very long fourth finger.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «pterosaur» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.