aphanipterous

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Etymology

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From Aphaniptera +‎ -ous.

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aphanipterous (not comparable)

  1. (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.

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