apery

The petals were so dry and apery that they crumbled at the first touch.

Martin believed he should remove himself from the chimpanzees' view rather than stand there and encourage their apery, but Kunal wanted the missionary to stay.

La sémantique récursive de Davidson et de Montague ", in Apery et al.

It represents, rather the culmination of the author's period of imitation which had started with the apery of contemporary modernists, and worked backwards in time, until in copying Goethe, Carossa discovered himself.