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APTERAL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does apteral mean?
• APTERAL (adjective)
The adjective APTERAL has 2 senses:
1. having columns at one or both ends but not along the sides
2. (of insects) without wings
Familiarity information: APTERAL used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having columns at one or both ends but not along the sides
Similar:
amphiprostylar; amphiprostyle; amphistylar; porticoed (marked by columniation having free columns in porticoes either at both ends or at both sides of a structure)
prostyle; pseudoprostyle (marked by columniation having free columns in a portico only across the opening to the structure)
Antonym:
peripteral (having columns on all sides)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(of insects) without wings
Synonyms:
apteral; apterous
Similar:
wingless (lacking wings)
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