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flying

Definitions

adjective

  1. moving swiftly
  2. hurried and brief

noun

  1. an instance of traveling by air

Examples

While on the way thither she fell in with a polacre-rigged ship flying the

When an airplane is flying, it has a good deal of forward speed and airflow over all of its surfaces.

Concorde was the first supersonic passenger jet - capable of flying faster than the speed of sound.

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pterosaur

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noun

  1. an extinct reptile of the Jurassic and Cretaceous having a bird-like beak and membranous wings supported by the very long fourth digit of each forelimb

Examples

There were exceptions: K.A. von Zittel (1882) imagined pterosaurs as possessing narrow, swallow-like wings that did not attach further distally than the knee, and Harry Seeley (1901) opined that the patagia may not have incorporated the hindlimbs at all.

Pterosaurs were the first vertebrates, or animals with backbones, to flap their wings and fly.

This indicates that broad-chord patagia are both widely distributed within pterosaurs, and the norm for the group.

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