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flightless
Word definitions for flightless in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a flightless bird (= that cannot fly ) ▪ The emu is a large flightless Australian bird. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN bird ▪ This huge flightless bird has regularly appeared in illustrated fossil books as a giant ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. incapable of flying
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"incapable of flying," 1846, from flight (n.1) + -less . Related: Flightlessly ; flightlessness .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Unable to fly. Usually used with birds such as the penguin, ostrich, and emu.
Usage examples of flightless.
A cheer of sorts, made with stiff flightless wings and hard mandibles, a terrible, mechanistic cheer .
Her brain compared in size to that of the flightless birds of later eras she somewhat resembled.
The chicks were still flightless, their wing membranes yet to develop.
There were still glyptodonts, not so dissimilar from the huge armored beast that had terrified Roamer, and the top predators were giant flightless birds, just as in archaic times.
She was a genyornis, a giant flightless bird twice the size of an emu.
There were flightless geese instead of rabbits, little songbirds instead of mice, gigantic eagles instead of leopards, and seventeen different species of moa, giant flightless birds, eerie avian parallels to deer.
It was a flightless cormorant: scruffy and black, a thing of stubby useless wings and oily feathers.
I saw what I took to be a flightless rail, though perhaps it was only wet.
In world myth and folklore, many images are seen: a woman weaving, stands of laurel trees, an elephant jumping off a cliff, a girl with a basket on her back, a rabbit, the lunar intestines spilled out on its surface after evisceration by an irritable flightless bird, a woman pounding tapa cloth, a four-eyed jaguar.
A brilliant social designer and humanitarian is now solely remembered for a building that houses flightless birds.
Her slouch combines with nervous arm-flapping to transform her, as she walks, into a huge flightless bird, its terrified eyes silently pleading, just this once, to be allowed to fly.
Adams and Carwardine spent the next year traveling the world and seeing endangered animals, like flightless kakapo parrots in New Zealand and baiji river dolphins in China.
The striches, flightless riding birds with hairy grey-brown plumage, long necks and strong feet, jerked their heads up, stubby wings wide.
There were still glyptodonts, not so dissimilar from the huge armored beast that had terrified Roamer, and the top predators were giant flightless birds, just as in archaic times.
The egg masses of Schistocerca greg aria the desert locust, that were buried in the loose earth along the edge of the lake, released their flightless nymphs.