Wingless

Quick meaning: Wingless is an adjective meaning Having no, or only rudimentary, wings.

Meaning

Having no, or only rudimentary, wings.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

Synonyms for wingless

Depending on context, synonyms include apterous, apteral.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include apterous, apteral, winglesse, featherless, anarthrous, webless.

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