Definition of Archaeopterix
||Ar`chæ*op"te*ryx (&?;), n. [Gr.
'archai^os ancient + pte`ryx wing.] (Paleon.)
A fossil bird, of the Jurassic period, remarkable for having a long
tapering tail of many vertebræ with feathers along each side, and
jaws armed with teeth, with other reptilian characteristics.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- a species known from fossils and widely accepted as the earliest and most primitive known bird
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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