Sunwing

Quick meaning: Sunwing is a noun meaning (science fiction) A wing or extension designed to capture energy from sunlight.

Meaning

(science fiction) A wing or extension designed to capture energy from sunlight.

More Meanings

1. (rare, poetic) A ray of sunlight.
2. (rare) A solar greenhouse, sun porch or solarium added as an extension to a building, in order to provide a space that captures heat from sunlight.

Example Sentences

Slowly, on parallel tracks into the breeze, the sunwings rolled off.

While we still had the giant sunwings we traveled the world, exploring other continents from the air.

Many of the hard-earned lessons of the solar home industry are being brought to bear on sunwing design.

A boy awakening under a plane-tree Whose bark peels every grade of green, With sunwings winking in-between?

Word Forms

• sunwings

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