aphanipterous

English

Etymology

Aphaniptera +‎ -ous

Adjective

aphanipterous (not comparable)

(zoology) Of or pertaining to the Aphaniptera, a former classification of insects.
- 1914, Raymond Roussel, Rupert Copeland Cuningham (translator), 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

Irish: afanaipteireach

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 aphanipterous in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)