wingless

English

Etymology

From wing +‎ -less.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

wingless (not comparable)

1. Having no, or only rudimentary, wings.

   Synonyms: apterous, unwinged

   Antonym: winged

   Coordinate terms: brachypterous, subapterous

   • 2010, Ann M. Jayne, Kory's Jungle, page 145:

     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.

Translations

lacking wings

• Belarusian: бяскры́лы (bjaskrýly)
• Danish: vingeløs, ubevinget
• Dutch: vleugelloos (nl)
• Finnish: siivetön (fi)
• German: flügellos
• Greek: άπτερος (el) m (ápteros)
• Hungarian: szárnyatlan (hu)
• Irish: dísciathánach
• Macedonian: бескрилен (beskrilen)
• Manx: gyn skian, neuskianagh
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vingeløs

• Polish: bezskrzydły (pl)
• Portuguese: áptero
• Russian: бескры́лый (ru) (beskrýlyj)
• Swedish: vinglös (sv)
• Turkish: kanatsız (tr)
• Ukrainian: безкри́лий (uk) (bezkrýlyj)

See also

• featherless
• flightless

Anagrams

• Swingles, Wessling, swingels, swingles