Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Greek architecture and archaeology, a range of columns; a portico.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anat.) The region of the skull, in the temporal fossa back of the orbit, where the great wing of the sphenoid, the temporal, the parietal, and the frontal hones approach each other.
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- noun architecture A
peristyle raised on apodium , differing from an ordinary peristyle raised only on astylobate .
Etymologies
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The generic appellations of the several species of Ferns are derived thus: _Aspidium_, from _aspis_, a shield, because the spores are enclosed in bosses; _Pteris_, from _pteerux_, a wing, having doubly pinnate fronds; or from _pteron_, a feather, having feathery fronds;
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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It comes from two Greek words _orthos_, meaning straight, and _pteron_, meaning a wing.
The Insect Folk Margaret Warner Morley 1890
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The name of the insect order to which they both belong is Neuroptera, from _neuron_, a nerve, and _pteron_ -- who remembers what _pteron_ means?
The Insect Folk Margaret Warner Morley 1890
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Roughly corresponding to what we all know as the temple, this place - which takes its name from the Greek pteron, meaning wing think of Hermes with wings attached to this part of his head - is the junction of four separate skull bones, the frontal, parietal, temporal and sphenoid.
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The etymology is straightforward Greek, from a - meaning "not" and pteron meaning "wing."
Anecdotal Evidence Patrick Kurp 2010
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BlogHUD: Get a Second Life Blog - Second Life blogging community network and tools pteron
World of SL 2009
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Hemiptera is from the Greek hemi "half" and pteron
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Designed by Alain Deveze, the K-pteron is part motorcycle, part sidecar, and part quad.
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[Footnote 1: [Greek: cheir] the "hand," and [Greek: pteron] a "wing."] [Footnote 2: See BELL _On the Hand_, ch.iii. p. 70;] [Footnote 3: See article on _Cheiroptera_, in TODD'S
Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon James Emerson Tennent 1836
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