英语词汇archaeopteryx的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	archaeopteryx
词源	archaeopteryx. One of the world’s most famous fossils, the 150-million-year-old archaeopteryx has the body and teeth of a small dinosaur and the feathered wings of a bird. When found in a German limestone quarry in 1861 it was hailed as a miss- ing evolutionary link between reptiles and birds. Since that time five similar specimens have been found. Archaeopteryx is, appropriately, the Greek for “ancient wing.”
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