pterygiateadj.
/tɛˈrɪdʒɪət/, U.S. /tɛˈrɪdʒiət/ Zoology. rare.
That has a pterygium or pterygia.
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1904 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. Aug. 108 [New Zealand Coleoptera.] Rostrum short, pterygiate, nude at apex, indistinctly carinate.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1904- to be in the world but not of it
- to be in there
- to be in touch
- to be in trouble
- to be in two in (also of several minds, etc)
- to be in two in twenty minds several minds, etc)
- to be in two minds several minds, etc)
- to be in use
- to be in veneration
- to be in way of
- to be in way with
- to be in wear
- to be in will
- to be in with a chance
- to be in wone
- to be in, fall, put, etc into a flutter, all of a flutter
- to be in, get in , a flap
- to be in, get into, a flap
- to be in, put into or out of a capacity
- to be indebted
- to be indifferent to
- to be instanced in
- to be intended
- to be interessed
- to be interested