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Meaning of aphanipterous | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1

Definitions

Of or pertaining to fleas of Aphaniptera, a former classification of insects.

not-comparable

Examples

“According to the brief text surrounding the drawing, the emerald was an aphanipterous parasite of Caledonian wintergreen, a plant peculiar to Scotland, and was sometimes endowed with an intermittent phosphorescence at night which gave rise to a sort of green halo above it, parallel to the general plane of its body.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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