English Explanatory Dictionary

pycnofibre

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any one of the hair-like filaments that comprised an integument of some pterosaurs.

Word forms

pycnofibre pycnofibres pycnofiber

Etymology

From pycno- + fibre. Coined 2009 by Brazilian palaeontologist Alexander W. A. Kellner et al.

This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on P Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary