aphanipterous

English

Etymology

From Aphaniptera +‎ -ous.

Adjective

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.

Translations

of or pertaining to the Aphaniptera

• Irish: afanaipteireach

References

• “aphanipterous”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “aphanipterous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.