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trackway

American  
[trak-way] / ˈtrækˌweɪ /

noun

  1. railway.

  2. a path or roadway; track.


Etymology

Origin of trackway

First recorded in 1810–20; track + way 1


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Located near Ouray, the trackway is one of the most continuous and tightly curved sauropod footprint trails ever recorded.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026

Another trackway site had been found nearby in the 1990s, so he realised the regular bumps and dips could be dinosaur footprints.

From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2025

“This trackway is particularly beautifully preserved,” says paleoanthropologist Louise Leakey of Stony Brook University and director of the Koobi Fora Research Project.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 27, 2024

The raptor’s footprints are part of a larger dinosaur trackway discovered in southeastern China in 2020.

From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2024

But the road to Coulsdon opens on broad slopes of grass and plough, bordered with a line of yews—an ancient trackway, perhaps.

From Highways and Byways in Surrey by Hugh Thomson

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