Meanings
- not comparableOf, like, or pertaining to a pterodactyl.
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I did not intend the steed of the Witch-King to be what is now called a 'pterodactyl', and often is drawn (with rather less shadowy evidence than lies behind many monsters of the new and fascinating semi-scientific mythology of the 'Prehistoric'). But obviously it is pterodactylic and owes much to the new mythology, and its description even provides a sort of way in which it could be a last survivor of older geological eras.
2023 [1981], Tolkien, J. R. R., “#211 to Rhona Beare”, in Carpenter, Humphrey, compiler, The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien Revised and Expanded Edition, New York: HarperCollins, →ISBN, Pterodactyl, page 298 - broadlynot comparableproscribedOf, like, or pertaining to any pterosaur; pterosaurian.
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pterodactylic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pterodactylic
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