flightless
/flahyt-lis/US // ˈflaɪt lɪs //UK // (ˈflaɪtlɪs) //
不飞的,不会飞的,不会飞,不飞
Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
- : incapable of flying: flightless birds such as the moa, rhea, and dodo.
Examples
A flightless, juvenal female was obtained by local boys at Pisté on July 21.
The wekas or Maori hens are small, flightless birds, averaging when full grown about two and three-quarter pounds.
The Ratitae differ from Archaeopteryx and the great majority of Carinatae in being flightless.
In several instances I have treated of extinct flightless species under genera including existing species capable of flight.
This appears to have been a very large species, with not very great powers of flight, if not flightless.
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