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apteral en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈæptəɹəl/

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἄπτερος (ápteros) + -al.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) apterous, wingless
   • The female is apteral, but provided with a noisy apparatus for attracting the male's attention. 1922, Remy de Gourmont, translated by Ezra Pound, The Natural Philosophy of Love:
2. (not-comparable) Without lateral columns; applied to buildings which have no series of columns along their sides, but are either prostyle or amphiprostyle.
   • 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 1852, William Henry Leeds, Rudimentary architecture for the use of beginners and students. The orders, and their æsthetic principles,:

Antonyms

peripteral