Apterous: Definition and part of speech

Apterous

  1. a. Destitute of winglike membranous expansions, as a stem or petiole; — opposed to alate.
  2. a. Destitute of wings; apteral; as, apterous insects.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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