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Wingless

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Having no wings or only rudimentary wings.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Having no, or only rudimentary, wings.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Having no wings; not able to ascend or fly.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Having no wings; hence, unable to fly; technically, in zoology, apterous; not alate; not winged, in any sense.

In ornithology, specifically, having rudimentary wings, unfit for flight.; impennate or squami-pennate, as any ratite bird or penguin: as, the wingless kiwis (Apterygidæ).

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. lacking wings

Word Usage

"Insects may thus become secondarily wingless, that is to say be manifestly the offspring of winged parents, and such wingless forms may on the other hand give rise to offspring or descendants with well-developed wings."

Equivalent

apteral flightless apterous

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

apterous impennate flightless

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

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