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Short-winged   /ʃɔrt-wɪŋd/   Listen
Short-winged

adjective
1.
(especially of certain insects) having very short or rudimentary wings.  Synonym: brachypterous.





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... the turf of the shaven hills, her springy step dispersed any misty fancies. Her short-winged hive set to work in her head as usual, building scaffoldings of great things to be done by Chillon, present evils escaped. The rolling big bade hills with the riding clouds excited her as she mounted, and she was a figure of gladness on the ridge bending over to hospitable Plas ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith


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