Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A member of the Rhipiptera; a strepsipter, as a stylops.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) One of the Rhipiptera, a group of insects having wings which fold like a fan; a strepsipter.

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