Index of English words, starting with "ap"

(1) - Apteral (a.) Without lateral columns; -- applied to buildings which have no series of columns along their sides, but are either prostyle or amphiprostyle, and opposed to peripteral.
(2) - Apteral (a.) Apterous.

(1) - Apterous (a.) Destitute of winglike membranous expansions, as a stem or petiole; -- opposed to alate.
(2) - Apterous (a.) Destitute of wings; apteral; as, apterous insects.

(1) - Apteryx (n.) A genus of New Zealand birds about the size of a hen, with only short rudiments of wings, armed with a claw and without a tail; the kiwi. It is allied to the gigantic extinct moas of the same country. Five species are known.

(1) - Aptitude (n.) Readiness in learning; docility; aptness.
(2) - Aptitude (n.) A general fitness or suitableness; adaptation.
(3) - Aptitude (n.) A natural or acquired disposition or capacity for a particular purpose, or tendency to a particular action or effect; as, oil has an aptitude to burn.

(1) - Aptly (adv.) In an apt or suitable manner; fitly; properly; pertinently; appropriately; readily.