Definition for AP'TER, or AP'TER-A

AP'TER, or AP'TER-A, n. [Gr. α privative and πτερον, a wing.]

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

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