Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

odontopterygian

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: odon-toptery-gian
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

3

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An extinct pelican-like pelagornithid seabird of the suborder Odontopterygia.

Example Sentences

"Bone of a presumed Odontopterygian bird from the Miocene of New Zealand."
"Riding on the edge of the wind on long, narrow wings are the masters of the ocean sky, small, tube-nosed albatrosses and petrels, and the huge, false-toothed odontopterygians."

Inflected Forms

odontopterygians (plural)

Questions

What does odontopterygian mean?: An extinct pelican-like pelagornithid seabird of the suborder Odontopterygia.

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