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wingless

/wing-lis/US // ˈwɪŋ lɪs //UK // (ˈwɪŋlɪs) //

无翼,无翼鸟,无翼的,无翅

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having no wings.
    • : having only rudimentary wings, as an apteryx.

Examples

  • After a few weeks, her offspring hatch, and wingless males mate with winged females, then chew an exit tunnel that allows the females to fly to another fig and repeat the process.

  • 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.