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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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6 words match “RAPTER”

RAPTER n.
A raptor. [Obs.] Drayton.
PARAPTERUM n.
A special plate situated on the sides of the mesothorax and metathorax of certain insects.
TETRAPTERAN n.
An insect having four wings.
TETRAPTEROUS a.
Having four wings.
SILVER a.
age, so-called. -- Silver-bell tree (Bot.), an American shrub or small tree (Halesia tetraptera) with white bell-shaped flowers in clusters or racemes; the snowdrop tree. -- Silver bush (Bot.), a shrubby leguminous plant (Anthyllis Barba- Jovis) of Southern Europe, having silvery foliage. -- Silver chub (Zoöl.), th…
SWALLOW-TAILED a.
or kite (Zoöl.), the fork-tailed kite. -- Swallow-tailed moth (Zoöl.), a European moth (Urapteryx sambucaria) having tail-like lobes on the hind wings.