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Apter [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

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Apter [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

An insect without wings. The aptera, constituting the seventh order of insects in Linne's system, comprehend many genera. But later zoologists have made a very different distribution of these animals.

Aptera [Noun plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Insects without wings, constituting the seventh Linnaen order of insects, an artificial group, which included Crustacea, spiders, centipeds, and even worms. These animals are now placed in several distinct classes and orders.

Apteral [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Destitute of wings.

Apteral [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Apterous.

2. Without lateral columns; -- applied to buildings which have no series of columns along their sides, but are either prostyle or amphiprostyle, and opposed to peripteral.

Apteran [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One of the Aptera.

Apteria [Noun plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Naked spaces between the feathered areas of birds. See Pteryliae.

Apterous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Destitute of wings; apteral; as, apterous insects.

2. Destitute of winglike membranous expansions, as a stem or petiole; -- opposed to alate.

Apteryges [Noun plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

An order of birds, including the genus Apteryx.

Apteryx [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A genus of New Zealand birds about the size of a hen, with only short rudiments of wings, armed with a claw and without a tail; the kiwi. It is allied to the gigantic extinct moas of the same country. Five species are known.