pterygote

[ ter-i-goht ]

adjective

1. belonging or pertaining to the arthropod subclass Pterygota, comprising the winged insects.

Word History and Origins

Origin of pterygote¹

1875–80; < New Latin Pterygota < Greek pterýgōta, neuter plural of pterygōtós winged, derivative of pteryg- (stem of ptéryx ) wing

Example Sentences

Many Hexapoda have lost either one pair or both pairs of wings; cases are common of wingless genera allied to ordinary Pterygote genera.

From Project Gutenberg

But the word “Insect” had become limited since the days of Linnaeus to the Hexapod Pterygote forms, to the exclusion of his Aptera.

From Project Gutenberg

Lamarck, however, appears not to have insisted on this name Hexapoda, and so the class of Pterygote Hexapods came to retain the group-name Insecta, which is, historically or etymologically, no more appropriate to them than it is to the classes Crustacea and Arachnida.

From Project Gutenberg

Apterygota: = apterygogenea; see pterygote.

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