Usually means: Feather-like structure in birds.
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  1. pteroid: Merriam-Webster
  2. pteroid: Wordnik
  3. pteroid: Wiktionary

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▸ noun:  A bone, found only in pterosaurs, that connected to the wrist to support the propatagium.

Similar:
pterotic, patagial, pterygoid, exapophysis, palpostyle, omoideum, pterygoid process, prootic, pecten, propatagium, more...

Opposite:
apterous, non-winged, wingless

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Similar:
pterotic, patagial, pterygoid, exapophysis, palpostyle, omoideum, pterygoid process, prootic, pecten, propatagium, more...

Opposite:
apterous, non-winged, wingless



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