Usually means: Lacking wings; unable to fly.
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  1. apterous: Merriam-Webster
  2. apterous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. apterous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. apterous: Collins English Dictionary
  5. apterous: Vocabulary.com
  6. apterous: Wordnik
  7. apterous: Wiktionary
  8. apterous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. apterous: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. apterous: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Apterous, apterous: Dictionary.com
  12. Apterous: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Apterous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. apterous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. apterous: Rhymezone
  16. Apterous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. apterous: FreeDictionary.org
  18. apterous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. apterous: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. apterous: Merriam-Webster

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. apterous: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Apterous: HYPP Zoology
  3. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (apterous)

▸ adjective:  (zoology) Without wings.
▸ adjective:  (biology) Destitute of winglike membranous expansions, as a stem or petiole.

Similar:
apteral, wingless, apterygial, acanthopterous, aliped, acaudate, ascrotal, antiopelmous, actinozoal, aphanipterous, more...

Opposite:
winged, feathered, volant

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Similar:
apteral, wingless, apterygial, acanthopterous, aliped, acaudate, ascrotal, antiopelmous, actinozoal, aphanipterous, more...

Opposite:
winged, feathered, volant



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