wingspan
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3.2
- noun
- /ˈwɪŋˌspæn/
- Specialized
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envergadura
- The wingspan of the eagle allows it to soar gracefully through the skies.
- wingspan of four feet
- wingspan of about 40 inches
- wingspan of about
You have like your giant, like dragon body, huge wingspan, but like gold wolf pulse dragon wolf.
- You have like your giant, like dragon body, huge wingspan, but like gold wolf pulse dragon wolf.
- Like I heard a rumor that the size of Illyrian males is wingspan might mean that the size of something else is different.
Examples
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The Article has an 80-foot wingspan.
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It's a 60-foot overall wingspan.
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MIKE: It has the largest wingspan of any bird on earth.
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And the first flight... was less than the wingspan of a modern jet.
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--Thirteen pounds and a wingspan of nearly 7 feet.
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And in the sky, the wingspan of some insects reaches over three feet.
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The DC-10 had a wingspan of over one hundred and fifty-five feet.
Fiction book (1991) -
The Quetzalcoatlus is the biggest flying animal of all time, with a 40-foot wingspan.
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Females, whose wingspans reach four feet, are substantially larger than males.
Academic text (1990) -
With a nine-and-one-half-foot wingspan, condors can soar almost effortlessly for hours over hundreds of square miles a day.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
1
7.2
The distance from one wing tip to the other when wings are fully open
How Long
- Specialized
16
3.2
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Wingspan is easy to picture: it joins wing and span, where span means 'stretch' or 'distance'. So, wingspan is the distance a wing 'stretches' from tip to tip, the measure we use for birds, planes, or gliders.