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Look up: pter-

  1. pter-
    Ptero- ... Combining form meaning wing; feather. ... Origin: G. Pteron, wing, feather ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  2. pter-
    Type: Term Definitions: 1. Combining form meaning wing; feather.
    Found on http://www.medilexicon.com/medicaldictio

  3. Pteraichnus
    `Pteraichnus` is an ichnogenus that has been attributed to pterosaurs. It has been found in, among other units, the Lower Jurassic Aztec Sandstone. See also:
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pteraichnus

  4. Pterallastes
    `Pterallastes` is a genus of bee-mimicking hoverflies. So far the genus contains only two species, one in North America and one from the Sichuan province of journal =Journal of the New York Entomological Society | volume = 82 |issue=1| pages = 15–29 |url = http://www.jstor.org/stable/2...
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  5. Pteralyxia kauaiensis
    `Pteralyxia kauaiensis` (also called `Kauai Pteralyxia`) is a species of plant in the Apocynaceae family. It is endemic to the island of Kauai in the Hawaiian Islands. It is threatened by habitat loss and degradation. There are no more than 1000 individuals remaining.<ref name=iucn>World C...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pteralyxia_

  6. Pteralyxia macrocarpa
    `Pteralyxia macrocarpa` (also called `Ridged Pteralyxia`) is a species of plant in the Apocynaceae family. It is endemic to the Hawaiian Islands. It is threatened by habitat loss. Source:
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pteralyxia_

  7. Pterandra
    `Pterandra` is a genus in the Malpighiaceae, a family of about 75 genera of flowering plants in the order Malpighiales. Pterandra comprises 15 species of trees, shrubs, and subshrubs, all but two native to South America, principally Colombia, Venezuela, and Brazil; the exceptions (P...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pterandra

  8. Pteranodon
    (pronounced ter-AN-oh-don) Pteranodons were large, Cretaceous period pterosaurs , flying prehistoric reptiles. They were not dinosaurs. They were toothless hunters who scooped up fish from the seas. They were named by paleontologist O. Marsh in 1876.
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  9. Pteranodon
    Pte·ran'o·don noun [ Greek ... wing + ... priv. + ..., ..., a tooth.] (Paleon.) A genus of American Cretaceous pterodactyls destitute of teeth. Several species are known, some of which had an expanse of wings of twenty feet or more.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/188

  10. pteranodon
    <paleontology> A genus of American Cretaceous pterodactyls destitute of teeth. Several species are known, some of which had an expanse of wings of twenty feet or more. ... Origin: Gr. Wing + priv. +, a tooth. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  11. Pteranodon
    • (n.) A genus of American Cretaceous pterodactyls destitute of teeth. Several species are known, some of which had an expanse of wings of twenty feet or more.
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  12. Pteranodon
    flying reptile (pterosaur) found as fossils in North American deposits dating from about 90 million to 100 million years ago during the Late ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/p/128

  13. Pteranodon
    Pteranodon was a dinosaur of the family Pteranodontidae, of the mid to late Cretaceous period. A pterosaur (flying dinosaur) remains have been found in Kansas, North America. There wera number of species, Pteranodon ingens had a wing span of seven meters, Pteranodon sternbergi was larger. Pteranodon...
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  14. Pteranodontia
    Pte·ran`o·don'ti·a noun plural [ New Latin ] (Paleon.) A group of pterodactyls destitute of teeth, as in the genus Pteranodon .
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/188

  15. pteranodontia
    <paleontology> A group of pterodactyls destitute of teeth, as in the genus Pteranodon. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  16. Pteranodontia
    • (n. pl.) A group of pterodactyls destitute of teeth, as in the genus Pteranodon.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  17. Pteranodontidae
    The `Pteranodontidae` are a family of large pterosaurs of the Cretaceous Period of North America. The family was named in 1876 by Othniel Charles Marsh. Pteranodontids had a distinctive, elongated crest jutting from the rear of the head (most famously seen in Pteranodon itself). The spectacul...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pteranodont

  18. pteraspid
    pteraspid Extinct jawless fish abundant in lower Devonian times. Pteraspids has massive plated head shields, which could be almost as long as the rest of the body; scaly tails; and only one fin; the tail, or caudal, fin. They are belived to have lived at the bottom of shallow seas, scooping up small invertebrates with their mouth plates.
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  19. Pteraspida
    `Pteraspida` is an extinct class of early jawless fish. The fossils show extensive shielding of the head. Some species may have lived in fresh water. The taxon contains the subgruops Heterostraci, Astraspida, Arandaspida. References: External links:
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pteraspida

  20. Pteraspis
    genus of extinct jawless fishlike vertebrates found as fossils in Early Devonian rocks (those 387 to 408 million years old) in North America and ... [1 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/p/128

  21. Pteraspis
    --> and is found in association with marine fossils.<ref name="Lankester2009">--><ref name="White1938">--> Pteraspis grew to a length of 8 inches (20 centimeters). References:
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pteraspis

  22. Pterelaus
    The name `Pterelaus` (Πτερέλαος) is attributed to two individuals in Greek mythology. Son of Lelex: Pterelaus was a son of Lelex, a pre-Hellenic king whose descendants (the Leleges) spread across Greece and beyond . Pterelaus ruled the land by the River Achelous, in the ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pterelaus

  23. Pteria
    (from the article `bivalve`) Bivalves of the genera Pinctada and Pteria have been collected in many tropical seas for the natural pearls they may contain, although in many ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/p/128

  24. Pteria
    ancient capital of the `White Syrians` of northern Cappadocia in eastern Anatolia, which, according to the Greek historian Herodotus, was taken, ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/p/128

  25. Pteria
    (Cappadocia) `Pteria` was the capital of the Assyrians in northern Cappadocia. They were said by Herodotus to have been taken and ruined by Croesus in 547 BC. It also was the place of an undecided battle between Cyrus the Great and Croesus. Although some have identified Pteria with Hattusa (B...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pteria



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On 11th February, 1858, a 14 year old French peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous claimed to have seen visions of the Virgin Mary at her native Lourdes. She also revealed that the waters of a spring near a grotto in Lourdes had been given healing powers by the Virgin. Eventually, the Roman Catholic church decided that the visions were authentic. Franz Werfel wrote the novel, Song of Bernadette, based on the story of Bernadette's visions. read more

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