The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wingless \Wing"less\, a. Having no wings; not able to ascend or fly.
Wingless bird (Zo["o]l.), the apteryx.
Usage examples of "wingless bird".
And he was suddenly a bird, a wingless bird hovering for a breathless instant on a balmy, sweet-scented wind, sole witness to the miracle sleeping below.
When not seeing after Lucius's needs, she spent long hours perched on the peak of the roof, a gangly, wingless bird whose sharp gaze missed nothing that went on below.
Small, not more than thirty feet long and ten feet high, it skimmed above the ground like a low-flying wingless bird.
It's a wingless bird so big and fierce even one of Podarge's pets would skedaddle away from it.
Elphaba ignored her food except to prod the eyes out of the baked fish and to try to fit them onto her wingless bird.
The kids had not picked anyone to be the gooney-that wingless bird which never flies-so that no one took a bad trip and harmed himself.
The Ibans made up a song about the wingless bird and the doctor who came from the sky.
The mat was perfectly silent in its flight -- even the wind noise was hushed by the deflective containment field -- and several times I saw large animals leap to hiding, surprised by the sudden appearance of this wingless bird above them.
The mat was perfectly silent in its flight-even the wind noise was hushed by the deflective containment field-and several times I saw large animals leap to hiding, surprised by the sudden appearance of this wingless bird above them.
Shoulders hunched, hands thrust into the pockets of his great coat, the navy bureaucrat looked like a large wingless bird.