[Ads-l] flapling

[Jonathan Lighter]

Not in OED.

2021 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/10/211027122040.htm

"Tiny pterosaurs dominated Cretaceous skies

"The babies of giant pterosaurs - known as flaplings - overshadowed their
small adult rivals."

(Giant pterosaurs glided rather than flapped. But so what?)

JL

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