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Webster 1913 Edition


Platyptera


Pla-typ′te-ra

,
Noun.
pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. [GREEK] broad + [GREEK] a wing.]
(Zool.)
A division of Pseudoneuroptera including the species which have four broad, flat wings, as the termites, or white-ants, and the stone flies (
Perla
).