Apteral

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Having no columns along the sides. Used especially of a classical temple.
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  • adj. apterous
  • adj. Without lateral columns; applied to buildings which have no series of columns along their sides, but are either prostyle or amphiprostyle.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Apterous.
  • adj. Without lateral columns; -- applied to buildings which have no series of columns along their sides, but are either prostyle or amphiprostyle, and opposed to peripteral.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Destitute of wings.
  • In architecture, applied to a temple or other building which has no columns on the flanks, but may have a portico at one or at each end: opposed to peripteral, surrounded by columns. See prostyle and amphiprostyle.
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  • adj. having columns at one or both ends but not along the sides
  • adj. (of insects) without wings
    • Equivalent
    porticoed    amphiprostylar    pseudoprostyle    amphiprostyle    prostyle    amphistylar    wingless   
    Antonym
    peripteral   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    apterous   
     
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