archeopteryx

See also: archaeopteryx, Archaeopteryx, and archæoptéryx

English
a model of an archæopteryx on display at the Natural History Museum of Geneva

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Alternative forms

Etymology

English archaeo- (“ancient”, “primitive”) (from Ancient Greek ἀρχαῖος (arkhaîos)) + English -o- + Ancient Greek πτέρυξ (ptérux, “wing”, “bird”)[1]

Pronunciation
  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: äkē.ŏpʹtərĭks, IPA(key): /ɑɹkiˈɒptəɹɪks/ (US), IPA(key): /ɑːkiːˈɒptəɹɪks/,[1]

Noun

archeopteryx (plural archeopteryxes)

  1. A specimen of the species Archaeopteryx lithographica, being the earliest and most primitive known bird, representing a transition in the evolution of dinosaurs to birds.
    • 1935, Zoological Society of London, Proceedings, page 758:
      Since Pterosaurians are triassic and the Archæopteryges jurassic we are justified in regarding the actual chronology of external integument in the geological strata as : first, scale ; second, hair ; and third, feather. This inspires us to make a wider appeal to geology in order to have a comprehensive sketch of the avian sequence.

Translations

References
  1. “‖archæopteryx” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]

Further reading

Czech

Noun

archeopteryx m

  1. archeopteryx

Further reading
  • archeopteryx in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
  • archeopteryx in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
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