apteral

English

Adjective

apteral (not comparable)

1. (zoology) apterous
   • The Natural Philosophy of Love

     The female is apteral, but provided with a noisy apparatus for attracting the male's attention.

2. (architecture) Without lateral columns; applied to buildings which have no series of columns along their sides, but are either prostyle or amphiprostyle.

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Antonyms

• (architecture): peripteral

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “apteral”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)