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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as peripteros.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The region surrounding a moving body, such as the wing of a bird or a gliding aëroplane, within which cyclic or vortical motion of the air occur.

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