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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

[NL., fr. Gr.

ὀδούς

ὀδόντος

, a tooth +

πτέρυξ

a wing.]

(Paleon.)

An extinct Eocene bird having the jaws strongly serrated, or dentated, but destitute of true teeth. It was found near London.