entomopter
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thumb|300px|right|Terrestrial Entomopter model.
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- powered aircraft
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- different from
- ornithopter
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- Terrestrial entomopter
- Mars entomopter
- Funding and international recognition
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thumb|300px|right|Terrestrial Entomopter model.
An Entomopter is an aircraft that flies using the wing-flapping aerodynamics of an insect. The word is derived from entomo (meaning insect: as in entomology) + pteron (meaning wing). Entomopters are type of ornithopter, which is the broader term for any device intended to fly by flapping wings.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “entomopter” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.