apterous

Without wings.

Adjective

  1. Without wings.
    • Near-synonym: flightless
    • The source of light was thronged by moths and apterous insects. - 2019, Chigozie Obioma, An Orchestra of Minorities, Abacus (2019), page 354:

    Synonyms: apteral unwinged wingless flightless

    Antonyms: winged

    Coordinate Terms: subapterous brachypterous bipterous dipterous tripterous featherless

  2. Destitute of winglike membranous expansions, as a stem or petiole.

Origin

By surface analysis, a + -pterous, or by surface analysis, aptery + -ous.

Forms

apteran

Related

apteran apterium aptery Apterygiformes Apterygota Apteryx ptero-

Derived

subapterous