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wingspots

wingspots is the plural of wingspot.

Meaning of wingspot

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

Questions about wingspots

What is wingspots the plural of?
Wingspots is the plural of wingspot.

Words near wingspots in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wingspots (page history and authors); wingspot (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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