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pteropsidanouna subdivision of vascular plants that is no longer in use.
pterisnoun(brake) a genus of about 300 species of ferns in the subfamily Pteridoideae of the family Pteridaceae.
pteropodanoun(common name pteropods, from the Greek meaning "wing-foot") specialized free-swimming pelagic sea snails and sea slugs, marine opisthobranch gastropods.
pteropusnoun(suborder Yinpterochiroptera) a genus of megabats which are among the largest bats in the world.
pterocaryanounPterocarya, often called wingnuts in English, are trees in the walnut family Juglandaceae.
pteronnoun(architecture) A peristyle raised on a podium, differing from an ordinary peristyle raised only on a stylobate.
pteronoun
pterosaurnounAny flying reptile, of the extinct order †Pterosauria, including the pterodactyls.
pterostigmanoun(zoology) A spot on the outer wing of insects which is often thickened or coloured and so stands out from the rest; it is a group of specialized cells and has an effect on flight dynamics.
pteropodnounAny of free-swimming pelagic sea snails and sea slugs, of the suborder Thecosomata, that have winglike lobes on the feet; a sea butterfly.
pterosaurianounextinct flying reptiles: pterosaurs
pteranodonnounA member of Pteranodon, a genus of large pterosaurs, the males of which had a bony crest on the back of the head.
pteroticnounThe pterotic bone.
pterodactylnoun(loosely, proscribed) Any pterosaur.
pteridiumnoun(botany) A fern of the genus Pteridium.
pterinnoun(organic chemistry) A ketonic amide derivative of pteridine responsible for some of the colouring in nature. It is also a component of folic acid.
pteridophytenounAny plant of the division Pteridophyta, of simple vascular plants that reproduce via spores rather than seeds and that alternate generations of diploid (sporophyte) and haploid (gametophyte or prothallus) forms, the diploid generally being larger and more conspicuous.
neuropteranounThe insect order Neuroptera, or net-winged insects, includes the lacewings, mantidflies, antlions, and their relatives.
pteridophytanouncontaining all the vascular plants that do not bear seeds: ferns, horsetails, club mosses, and whisk ferns; in some classifications considered a subdivision of tracheophyta
isopteranounorder of social insects that live in colonies, including: termites; often placed in subclass exopterygota

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