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APHANIPTERA

\ɐfˈanɪptəɹə], \ɐfˈanɪptəɹə], \ɐ_f_ˈa_n_ɪ_p_t_ə_ɹ_ə]\

Definitions of APHANIPTERA

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
1895 - Glossary of terms and phrases

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A group of wingless insects, of which the flea in the type. See Flea.

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
By Oddity Software

A group of wingless insects, of which the flea in the type. See Flea.

1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
By Noah Webster.

Parasitic, blood-sucking, wingless insects comprising the order Siphonaptera.

2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
By DataStellar Co., Ltd

af-an-ip't[.e]r-a, n.pl. a small order of insects having but rudimentary scales in place of wings.--adj. APHANIP'TEROUS. [Gr. aphan[=e]s, invisible, pteron, wing.]

1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
By Thomas Davidson

[Gr.] (Entom.) Ord. of insects with no perceptible wings, as fleas.

1895 - Glossary of terms and phrases
By Henry Percy Smith

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