orthopter

/ ˈɔːθɒptə /

noun

another name for ornithopter

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This was called an orthopter, or ornithopter, a name which may be properly applied to any similar device.

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THE ORTHOPTER.—The term orthopter, or ornithopter, meaning bird wing, is applied to such flying machines as depend on wing motion to support them in the air.

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The word “orthopter” means straight wing and the word “ornithopter” bird wing.

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Two of them, the aeroplane, and the orthopter, have prototypes in nature, and are distinguished by their respective similarities to the soaring birds, and those with flapping wings.

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orthopsychiatry orthopteran

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