Word.ws English Dictionary

prionopterous

prionopterous adjective: having the costal edge of the forewing serrate and thickened (in butterflies).

Adjective

prionopterous (not comparable)

  1. Having the costal edge of the forewing serrate and thickened (in butterflies).

Questions about prionopterous

What does prionopterous mean?
Prionopterous means having the costal edge of the forewing serrate and thickened (in butterflies).
What part of speech is prionopterous?
Prionopterous is an adjective.

Words near prionopterous in the dictionary

  1. prionoids
  2. prionopathies
  3. prionopathy
  4. prionopid
  5. prionopids
  6. prionopterous
  7. prionose
  8. prionoses
  9. prionosis
  10. prions
  11. prionsialia

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: prionopterous (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “prionopterous.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/prionopterous. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.