apteral

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæptəɹəl/

Adjective

apteral (not comparable)

1. (zoology) apterous, wingless
   • 1922, Remy de Gourmont, translated by Ezra Pound, 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.
   • 1852, William Henry Leeds, Rudimentary architecture for the use of beginners and students. The orders, and their æsthetic principles,:

     There may, however, be entablature without columns, —where the latter are suppressed, as on the flanks of an apteral temple; or omitted entirely, as in astylar building

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)

Anagrams

• Peralta