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wingspot

wingspot noun: a spot on a wing (as of a bird or butterfly).

Noun

wingspot (plural wingspots)

  1. A spot on a wing (as of a bird or butterfly).
    • Perhaps the most exciting area in evolution is in exploring how rewiring the circuitry of genes produces different arthropod appendages, or wingspots on butterflies.2007 June 26, Douglas H. Erwin, “Darwin Still Rules, but Some Biologists Dream of a Paradigm Shift”, in New York Times

wingspot meaning in Tamil

wingspot in Tamil

இறக்கைப் புள்ளி

Forms of wingspot

pluralwingspots

Origin of wingspot

From wing + spot.

Questions about wingspot

What does wingspot mean?
Wingspot means a spot on a wing (as of a bird or butterfly).
What is wingspot in Tamil?
Wingspot in Tamil is இறக்கைப் புள்ளி. See Wingspot meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is wingspot?
Wingspot is a noun.
What is the plural of wingspot?
The plural of wingspot is wingspots.

Words near wingspot in the dictionary

  1. wingsails
  2. wingseed
  3. wingshooting
  4. wingspan
  5. wingspans
  6. wingspot
  7. wingspots
  8. wingspread
  9. wingspreads
  10. wingstroke
  11. wingstrokes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wingspot (page history and authors); wingspot (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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