- (a.) Like a bird's wing in form; as, a pterygoid bone.
- (n.) A pterygoid bone.
- (a.) Of, pertaining to or in the region of, the pterygoid bones, pterygoid processes or the whole sphenoid bone.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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