wingless
adjEtymology From wing + -less.
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Having no, or only rudimentary, wings.
- Soon the plate was full of wingless bats and batless wings. He covered the plate of broken bats and quickly unwrapped the plate of cat cookies. Snap, snap, snap went their tails. Snap, snap, snap went their legs.2010, Ann M. Jayne, Kory's Jungle, page 145:
- I was so thrilled to see a live bedbug, I showed it off to every graduate student I ran into that day: Cimex lectularius[,] a small, flat, wingless, brown ectoparasite that hides in cracks and crevices in human dwellings and emerges under cover of darkness to feast on human blood.2010 August 7, May Berenbaum, “This Bedbug’s Life”, in The New York Times:
- Related terms
- featherless, flightless