apteral > define
adjective
- Having columns at one or both ends but not along the sides.
- Of insects. ( without wings).
- synonyms: apterous
by WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (a.) Apterous.
- (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.
by Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary