Apterous is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.
You can make 607 anagrams from letters in apterous (aeoprstu).
First recorded in 1765-75, apterous is from the Greek word ápteros wingless. See a-6, -pterous
In apterous beetles the elytra are often connate, or have both sutures as it were soldered together.
Those which resemble the perfect insect, except that they are apterous, or not yet furnished with organs of flight.
Whereas the former is merely an apterous creeping grub, the latter is an insect provided with wings.
That of the glowworm (Lampyridæ) is not unlike the apterous female.
From this egg in the spring emerges an apterous female who makes a gall in the new leaf and lays therein a large number of eggs.
Fleas are apterous, walk but little, but leap to a height equal to two hundred times that of their own body.
Male and female larv similar, apterous, naked or covered, active.
It appears to be apterous, and is said in scent and colour to resemble the bed-bug.
Why it is, in the Insecta, that islands should predispose to an apterous state more than continents, it is not easy to speculate.
It is an apterous genus, and of eminently sluggish habits; and what is the consequence?
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