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Wingless female aphid
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aptera
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Aptera is an obsolete taxonomic category, which included the Apterygota along with various other wingless arthropods. Aptera may also refer to: Aptera, Greece , the city in Crete Aptera (Lycia) , an ancient city in Lycia, now Turkey Aptera Motors , a defunct ...
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Aptera \Ap"te*ra\, n. pl. [NL. aptera, fr. Gr. ? without wings; 'a priv. + ? wing, ? to fly.] (Zo["o]l.) Insects without wings, constituting the seventh Linn[ae]n order of insects, an artificial group, which included Crustacea, spiders, centipeds, ...
Usage examples of aptera.
She recalled vaulted ruins she had seen years ago on Crete, at a site called Aptera.
She recalled vaulted ruins she had seen years ago on Crete, at a site called Aptera: underground Roman cisterns, barrel-vaulted and made of brick, buried in a hillside.