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Flightless   /flˈaɪtləs/   Listen
Flightless

adjective
1.
Incapable of flying.



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"Flightless" Quotes from Famous Books



... most heterogeneous assembly, and there are untold groups, of the artificiality of which many a zoo-geographer had not the slightest suspicion when he took his statistical material, the genera and families, from some systematic catalogues or similar lists. A lamentable instance is that of certain flightless Rails, recently extinct or sub-fossil, on the isalnds of Mauritius, Rodriguez and Chatham. Being flightless they have been used in support of a former huge Antarctic continent, instead of ruling them out of court as Rails which, each in its island, have lost the power of ...
— Darwin and Modern Science • A.C. Seward and Others



Words linked to "Flightless" :   flightless bird, wingless



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