wingless
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- adjective
- /ˈwɪŋləs/
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- All known firefly larvae, which are wingless and mostly live on the ground and under bark, are fascinating to observe.
Examples
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Here and there above it, more people were ascending, tiny wingless angels rising into the sky against the blue of the ocean.
Fiction book (1998) -
For a wingless insect, you're alright by me.
Fiction book (1998) -
Perhaps I was watching the flight of some wingless bird; perhaps I was sending off a doomed torpedo.
Fiction book (1992) -
A wingless disc was seen cavorting in the skies above California by an Air Force captain and his wife.
Fiction book (2001) -
Like a wingless dove.
Fiction book (1997) -
The wingless male wasps emerge first and mate with the gall-enclosed females.
Academic text (2005) -
Horrified, they saw it come, something big, reddish, and unreasonable—a wingless bird.
Fiction book (1995) -
Throughout the great diversity of living ant species, for example, the coexistence of winged reproductive females and wingless worker females is a basic trait of colonial life.
Academic text (2008) -
The midge is a small, wingless fly that spends most of its two-year larval stage frozen in the Antarctic ice.
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I discovered a wingless insect crawling on the leaf, which surprised me because I had never seen one before.
Synonyms
Antonyms
How Winged
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Wingless is made of wing and -less, where wing is the part of a bird or insect and -less means 'without', just like in hopeless ('without hope'). So wingless simply means 'without wings', which is why we use it for animals or stages that do not have wings.