Crossword-Solution: ARCHAEOPTERYX
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Archaeopteryx | n. | A fossil bird, of the Jurassic period, remarkable for having a long tapering tail of many vertebrae with feathers along each side, and jaws armed with teeth, with other reptilian characteristics. |
We have 6 clues for the answer “ARCHAEOPTERYX”
| Clue | Answers |
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| BAVARIAN fossil bird | 1 answer |
| JURASSIC bird | 1 answer |
| JURASSIC fossil bird | 1 answer |
| REPTILIAN-like bird | 1 answer |
| fossil bird | 1 answer |
| BIRD (extinct) | 17 answers |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
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discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with ARCHAEOPTERYX (5)
While in Germany Luthardt, Schund, and their compeers were demonstrating that Scripture requires a belief in special and separate creations, the Archaeopteryx, showing a most remarkable connection between birds and reptiles, was discovered.
The most ancient representative of this class is the extraordinary genus Archaeopteryx from the upper Jurassic of Bavaria, which, though an unmistakable bird, retains so many reptilian structures and characteristics as to make its derivation plain.
They have yielded the _Archaeopteryx,_ the existence of which was first made known by the finding of a fossil feather, or rather of the impression of one.
The skull of this solitary specimen is unfortunately wanting, and it is therefore uncertain whether the _Archaeopteryx_ possessed teeth or not.
What their number may have been is uncertain; but several, if not all, of them were terminated by strong curved claws, not like such as are sometimes found in birds, but such as reptiles possess; so that, in the _Archaeopteryx,_ we have an animal which, to a certain extent, occupies a midway place between a bird and a reptile.