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clear-winged

clear-winged adjective: having transparent wings, or wing with transparent patches.

Adjective

clear-winged (not comparable)

  1. Having transparent wings, or wing with transparent patches.
    • The large and handsome spectre butterfly, Hestia durvillei; the pale-winged peacock butterfly, Drusilla catops; and the most brilliant and wonderful of the clear-winged moths, Cocytia durvillei, were especially interesting, as well, as several little "blues," equalling in brilliancy and beauty...1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 199

Questions about clear-winged

What does clear-winged mean?
Clear-winged means having transparent wings, or wing with transparent patches.
What part of speech is clear-winged?
Clear-winged is an adjective.

Words near clear-winged in the dictionary

  1. clear-sighted
  2. clear-sightedness
  3. clear-swept
  4. clear-up
  5. clear-ups
  6. clear-winged
  7. clearable
  8. clearage
  9. clearages
  10. clearance
  11. clearance hole

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