odontopterygian

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noun

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

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Meanings

nounodontopterygian (plural odontopterygians)

plural odontopterygians

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

    Bone of a presumed Odontopterygian bird from the Miocene of New Zealand.

    1972, RJ Scarlett, New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, article title
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    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.

    2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 84
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