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"APTERA" is a common misspelling or typo for: patera, apteral, Apt era.

Date "APTERA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references)

Etymology:Aptera \Ap"te*ra\, plural noun. [New Latin expression. aptera, from the Greek expression without wings; 'a priv. wing, to fly.]. (references)

Specialty Definition: APTERA

DomainDefinition
Noah Webster [Noun] An insect without wings. The aptera, constituting the seventh order of insects in Linne's system, comprehend many genera. But later zoologists have made a very different distribution of these animals.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary.
WikipedicAptera (Greek for "wingless"), a term in zoological classification applied by Linnaeus to various groups of wingless arthropods, including some of the insects, the centipedes, the millipedes, the Arachnida (scorpions, spiders, etc.) and the Crustacea. (references)

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Topics by Level of Interest: APTERA

Topics sorted by level of InterestLevel (1=low, 600=high)   Topics sorted AlphabeticallyLevel (1=low, 600=high)
Aptera Motors32   Aptera3
Apteromantis aptera6   Aptera Motors32
Inga aptera4   Apteromantis aptera6
Parashorea aptera4   Hopea aptera4
Hopea aptera4   Inga aptera4
Aptera3   Parashorea aptera4

Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses).