Adapter :: Adapter (n.) One who adapts.

Adapter :: Adapter (n.) A connecting tube; an adopter.

Aptera :: Aptera (n. pl.) Insects without wings, constituting the seventh Linnaen order of insects, an artificial group, which included Crustacea, spiders, centipeds, and even worms. These animals are now placed in several distinct classes and orders..

Apteral :: Apteral (a.) Apterous.

Apteral :: Apteral (a.) 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..

Apteran :: Apteran (n.) One of the Aptera.

Apteria :: Apteria (n. pl.) Naked spaces between the feathered areas of birds. See Pteryliae.

Apterous :: Apterous (a.) Destitute of wings; apteral; as, apterous insects..

Apterous :: Apterous (a.) Destitute of winglike membranous expansions, as a stem or petiole; -- opposed to alate..

Apteryges :: Apteryges (n. pl.) An order of birds, including the genus Apteryx..

Apteryx :: Apteryx (n.) A genus of New Zealand birds about the size of a hen, with only short rudiments of wings, armed with a claw and without a tail; the kiwi. It is allied to the gigantic extinct moas of the same country. Five species are known..

Chapter :: Chapter (n.) A division of a book or treatise; as, Genesis has fifty chapters..

Chapter :: Chapter (n.) An assembly of monks, or of the prebends and other clergymen connected with a cathedral, conventual, or collegiate church, or of a diocese, usually presided over by the dean..

Chapter :: Chapter (n.) A community of canons or canonesses.

Chapter :: Chapter (n.) A bishop's council.

Chapter :: Chapter (n.) A business meeting of any religious community.

Chapter :: Chapter (n.) An organized branch of some society or fraternity as of the Freemasons.

Chapter :: Chapter (n.) A meeting of certain organized societies or orders.

Chapter :: Chapter (n.) A chapter house.

Chapter :: Chapter (n.) A decretal epistle.

Chapter :: Chapter (n.) A location or compartment.

Chapter :: Chapter (v. t.) To divide into chapters, as a book..

Chapter :: Chapter (v. t.) To correct; to bring to book, i. e., to demand chapter and verse..

Dermaptera :: Dermaptera (n.) Alt. of Dermaptera.

Dermapteran :: Dermapteran (n.) See Dermoptera, Dermopteran..

Hexapterous :: Hexapterous (a.) Having six processes.

Interchapter :: Interchapter (n.) An intervening or inserted chapter.

Malapterurus :: Malapterurus (n.) A genus of African siluroid fishes, including the electric catfishes. See Electric cat, under Electric..

Metapterygium :: Metapterygium (n.) The posterior of the three principal basal cartilages in the fins of fishes.

Palapteryx :: Palapteryx (n.) A large extinct ostrichlike bird of New Zealand.

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