Definitions for sordes
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1. sordesnoun

   a small pterosaur that lived in the late Jurassic Period of the Mesozoic era

2. Etymology: Latin, related to sordere.

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1. SORDESnoun

   Foulness; dregs.

   Etymology: Latin.

   The sea washes off the soil and sordes wherein mineral mosses were involved and concealed, and thereby renders them more conspicuous. John Woodward.

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1. Sordes

   Sordes was a small pterosaur from the late Jurassic (Oxfordian/Kimmeridgian) Karabastau Svita of Kazakhstan. This genus was named in 1971 by Aleksandr Grigorevich Sharov. The type species is Sordes pilosus. The genus name is Latin for "filth" or "scum"; but Sharov translates it as "nechist", which means "devil" or "evil spirit", so the intended translation is "hairy devil" (the specific name is Latin for "hairy"; despite sordes being feminine, it has not yet been emended to pilosa).

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1. Sordesnoun

   foul matter; excretion; dregs; filthy, useless, or rejected matter of any kind; specifically (Med.), the foul matter that collects on the teeth and tongue in low fevers and other conditions attended with great vital depression

2. Etymology: [L., fr. sordere to be dirty or foul.]

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1. Sordes

   Sordes was a small basal pterosaur from the Late Jurassic Karabastau Svita of Kazakhstan. The genus was named in 1971 by Aleksandr Grigorevich Sharov. The type species is Sordes pilosus. The genus name means "filth" or "scum" in Latin, a reference to evil spirits in local folklore. The specific name is Latin for "hairy"; despite sordes being feminine, it has not yet been emended to pilosa. The genus is based on holotype PIN 2585/3, a crushed relatively complete skeleton on a slab. It was found in the sixties at the foothills of the Karatau in Kazakhstan. The fossil shows remains of the soft parts, such as membranes and hair. This was the first unequivocal proof that pterosaurs had a layer of fur. The integument served as insulation, an indication the group was warm-blooded, and provided a streamlined flight profile. The hairlike structures are present in two main types: longer at the extreme part of the wing membrane and shorter near the body. In the 1990s, David Unwin argued that both types were essentially not hairs but reinforcing fibres of the flight membranes. Later he emphasized that "hair" in the form of fur was indeed present on the body, after the find of new specimens clearly showing this.

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1. dosser

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of sordes in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of sordes in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Sordes
2. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=sordes
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sordes
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sordes
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=sordes