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English
Etymology
From Aphaniptera + -ous.
Adjective
aphanipterous (not comparable)
- (zoology) Of or pertaining to fleas of Aphaniptera, a former classification of insects.
1914, Raymond Roussel, translated by Rupert Copeland Cuningham, Locus Solus:According to the brief text surrounding the drawing, the emerald was an aphanipterous parasite of Caledonian wintergreen, a plant peculiar to Scotland, and was sometimes endowed with an intermittent phosphorescence at night which gave rise to a sort of green halo above it, parallel to the general plane of its body.
Translations
of or pertaining to the Aphaniptera
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