Crossword-Solution: PTERA
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PTERA | anagram | APERT, APTER, PARTE, PATER, PATRE, PEART, PETRA, PRATE, PRETA, REAPT, REPAT, RETAP, TAPER, TERAP |
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Creatures having wings: Comb. form. | 1 answer |
| Winged: Suffix. | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects,
spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally
unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of
growth.
Hint 2 anagram
AIRH
Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with PTERA (3)
Order: one of the primary divisions of the Class Insecta, based largely on wing structure and then usually ending in -ptera.
The general term _Lepidoptera_, applied to _all_ butterflies and moths, is derived from these _scaly-wings_; _Lepis_[2] being the Greek for a _scale_, and _ptera_ meaning _wings_ in the same language.
The flapping-wing machine is called an orthopter (_orthos_, straight, + _ptera_, wing) and is supposed to copy bird flight.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1951).