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wingless

[ wing-lis ]

adjective

  1. having no wings. wings.
  2. having only rudimentary wings, wings, as an apteryx.


ˈwingless

/ ˈwɪŋlɪs /

adjective

  1. having no wings or vestigial wings
  2. designating primitive insects of the subclass Apterygota, characterized by small size, lack of wings, and larvae resembling the adults: includes the springtails and bristletails


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Derived Forms

  • ˈwinglessness, noun

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Other Words From

  • wingless·ness noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of wingless1

First recorded in 1585–95; wing + -less

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Example Sentences

When one designer randomly drew a picture of round, wingless birds with bushy eyebrows, they knew they had an idea.

The latter family includes both winged and wingless forms, the Book-mites belonging to the latter category.

They are wingless, usually with simple eyes, and clothed with scales, and undergo no metamorphosis.

A third of the rarest moths of the collection for the man of India were antennaless, legless, wingless, and often headless.

On one of these leaves he placed a plant-louse, which was born under his own eyes, of a wingless mother.

Most of these insects, which we find so abundant upon our trees, are wingless females.

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