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.

   • 2010 August 7, May Berenbaum, “This Bedbug’s Life”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     I was so thrilled to see a live bedbug, I showed it off to every graduate student I ran into that day: Cimex lectularius[,] a small, flat, wingless, brown ectoparasite that hides in cracks and crevices in human dwellings and emerges under cover of darkness to feast on human blood.

Translations

lacking wings

• Belarusian: бяскры́лы (bjaskrýly)
• Danish: vingeløs, ubevinget
• Dutch: vleugelloos (nl)
• Finnish: siivetön (fi)
• German: flügellos
• Greek: άπτερος (el) m (ápteros)

  Ancient Greek: ἄπτερος 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