birdlike

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An abbreviation of Archaeopteryx, a birdlike dinosaur, it started out making climbing harnesses.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 6, 2025

The researchers identified them as the birdlike raptor Citipes elegans; both lacked growth marks on the bones and so were probably less than 1 year old, weighing as much as a modern-day turkey.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 7, 2023

The name stems from their majestic size, angular wings and birdlike flight.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 11, 2023

The film includes nods to D&D’s decades of accumulated lore — a birdlike aarakocra in one scene, an offhand reference to “Baldur’s Gate” in another — without distracting from the plot.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2023

I know that I am birdlike, made narrow and small as if for taking flight, built straight-waisted and fragile.

From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth