apteroidn.
/ˈaptərɔɪd/ Zoology. rare.
A bird having the wings merely rudimentary (as the emu).
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1836 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 39 306 In birds, reptiles and insects, there are some which have been falsely called apteroids, or apods; for they possess in concealment the members which their name declares them to want.
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n.1836- nondenominationalisms
- nondenumerable
- nondenumerably
- nondeposition
- nondepositions
- nonderivability
- nonderivative
- nonderivatives
- nonderivatized
- nondescript
- nondescriptive
- nondescriptly
- nondescripts
- nondesignative
- nondestructive
- nondestructively
- nondestructiveness
- nondestructivenesses
- nondeterminism
- nondeterministic
- nondevelopment
- nondevelopments
- nondiabetic
- nondiabetics
- nondiegetic