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Definition of Macropterous
1. a. Having long wings.
Definition of Macropterous
1. Adjective. Having long wings or fins. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Macropterous
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Macropterous
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Macropterous
Literary usage of Macropterous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Researches on North American Acridiidae by Albert Pitts Morse (1904)
"macropterous AND BRACHYPTEROUS SPECIES OP LOCUSTS. The presence of apterous or
brachypterous, that is to say, flightless, species of insects in a relatively ..."
2. The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation by James William Tutt, Malcolm Burr (1890)
"The species being so long known only in the brachypterous state, it is natural
at first glance to look upon these macropterous individuals as varieties or ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"Form of the prairie region of North America, probably also of California :
macropterous, more slender and less hairy than the coast insect. ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"Form of the prairie region of North America, probably also of California :
macropterous, more slender and less hairy than the coast insect. ..."
5. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1901)
"In the macropterous form long and broadly rounding posteriorly ; venation ...
Length: macropterous form, 3 mm.; brachypterous, 9, 2.5 mm.; £ , 1.6 mm. ..."
6. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1916)
"Of the unmated specimens one male and one female are macropterous and four females
brachypterous. In the brachypterous individuals the apices of the tegmina ..."
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