Words containing pterou
8 letter words containing pterou
9 letter words containing pterou
- dipterous — Entomology. belonging or pertaining to the order Diptera, comprising the houseflies, mosquitoes, and gnats, characterized by a single, anterior pair of membranous wings with the posterior pair reduced to small, knobbed structures.
10 letter words containing pterou
- isopterous — belonging or pertaining to social insects of the order Isoptera, comprising the termites.
- tripterous — three-winged; having three wings or winglike expansions.
11 letter words containing pterou
- hemipterous — belonging or pertaining to the Hemiptera, an order of insects having forewings that are thickened and leathery at the base and membranous at the apex, comprising the true bugs.
- homopterous — belonging or pertaining to the Homoptera, an order of insects closely related to the hemipterous insects (in some classifications a suborder of Hemiptera) but having membranous forewings and hind wings, including the aphids, cicadas, leafhoppers, planthoppers, and scale insects.
- mecopterous — belonging or pertaining to the insect order Mecoptera, comprising the scorpionflies and hangingflies.
12 letter words containing pterou
- coleopterous — belonging to the order Coleoptera
- macropterous — having long or large wings or fins.
- micropterous — (of certain animals, esp some types of ant) having small reduced wings
- neuropterous — belonging or pertaining to the Neuroptera, an order of insects characterized by four membranous wings having netlike venation, comprising the ant lions, lacewings, dobsonflies, alderflies, fishflies, snakeflies, mantispids, and spongillaflies.
- orthopterous — belonging or pertaining to the Orthoptera, an order of insects, including the cockroaches, mantids, walking sticks, crickets, grasshoppers, and katydids, characterized by leathery forewings, membranous hind wings, and chewing mouthparts.
13 letter words containing pterou
- aphanipterous — of or relating to the wingless insects of the order Aphaniptera
- brachypterous — having very short or incompletely developed wings
- heteropterous — belonging or pertaining to the Heteroptera, in some classifications a suborder of hemipterous insects comprising the true bugs.
- hymenopterous — belonging or pertaining to the Hymenoptera, an order of insects having, when winged, four membranous wings, and comprising the wasps, bees, ants, ichneumon flies, and sawflies.
- lepidopterous — belonging or pertaining to the Lepidoptera, an order of insects comprising the butterflies, moths, and skippers, that in the adult state have four membranous wings more or less covered with small scales.
14 letter words containing pterou
- siphonapterous — belonging or pertaining to the insect order Siphonaptera, comprising the fleas.
- strepsipterous — belonging or pertaining to the order Strepsiptera, comprising minute insects that are closely related to the beetles, the twisted-winged male being free-living and the wingless female parasitic in various insect hosts.
- thysanopterous — of or relating to the Thysanoptera genus of insects which are characterized by fringed wings
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