wingless
wingless adjective: having no, or only rudimentary, wings.
Adjective
wingless (not comparable)
- Having no, or only rudimentary, wings.
- 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, Ann M. Jayne, Kory's Jungle, page 145
- 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.2010 August 7, May Berenbaum, “This Bedbug’s Life”, in The New York Times
- Antonyms:
- winged
wingless meaning in Urdu
wingless in Urdu
- بےپر, بےپر پر
Synonyms of wingless
Antonyms
Origin of wingless
From wing + -less.
Words formed from wingless
Questions about wingless
- What does wingless mean?
- Wingless means having no, or only rudimentary, wings.
- What is wingless in Urdu?
- Wingless in Urdu is بےپر, بےپر پر. See Wingless meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is wingless?
- Wingless is an adjective.
Words near wingless in the dictionary
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