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Webster 1913 Edition
Pteron
Pte′ron
,Noun.
[NL., fr. Gr. [GREEK] a wing.]
(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.
Definition 2024
pteron
pteron
English
Noun
pteron
- (architecture) A peristyle raised on a podium, differing from an ordinary peristyle raised only on a stylobate.