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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Germanic *ne Proto-Indo-European *ís? Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos Proto-Germanic *ainaz Proto-Germanic *nainaz Proto-West Germanic *nain Old English nān Middle English non ▲ Old English nān Old English nān- Middle English non- English non- Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews- Proto-Indo-European *-r Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewsér Proto-Hellenic *auhḗr Ancient Greek ᾱ̓ήρ (āḗr) Ancient Greek ἀέρος (aéros)der. English aero- Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂-der. Proto-Hellenic *dunamai Ancient Greek δῠ́νᾰμαι (dŭ́nămai) Ancient Greek δύναμις (dúnamis) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós) Ancient Greek δυναμικός (dunamikós)lbor. French dynamiqueder. English dynamic English aerodynamic English nonaerodynamic From non- + aerodynamic.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Not aerodynamic
For example, in the chapter "Feathered Dinosaurs," we are told that some dinosaurs may have been endothermic because the Chinese theropod Sinosauropteryx possessed nonaerodynamic "feathers," each of which, like modern bird feathers, seems to have been composed of "a central rhachis and branching barbs" (p. 241).
1998 April 10, John Ruben, “Almost All Things Dinosaurian”, in Science, volume 280, number 5361, →DOI: