| 单词 | wingless |
| 释义 | wingless, a.|ˈwɪŋlɪs|
[wing n. + -less.]
Having no wings; destitute of wings.
Also applied by extension to birds having rudimentary wings not used for flight.
1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. v. 808 Mamuques..Food⁓less they live;..Wing-less they fly. 1668Charleton Onomast. 50 Anthrenus,..the wingless Hornet. 1704Petiver Gazophyl. ii. 13, This wingless Wasp I have had from Virginia. 1830Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 235 They differ from Bignoniaceæ in their wingless seeds. 1835Wordsw. Athens & Attica xiv, The statue of Victory in this temple, was sculptured wingless. 1855Orr's Circ. Sci., Inorg. Nat. 125 The apteryx..a New Zealand wingless bird. 1910Encycl. Brit. II. 233/1 Many wingless insects—such as lice, fleas and certain earwigs and cockroaches.
fig.1598T. Bastard Chrestol. iv. vi. 80 As if my thoughtes..Winglesse & footelesse, now like snailes did creepe. 1742Young Nt. Th. ii. 343 Our freedom chain'd; quite wingless our desire. 1820Shelley Prometh. Unb. i. 48 The wingless, crawling hours. 1827Hood Retrospective Rev. v, My joys are wingless all and dead. 1873C. E. Norton Lett. (1913) I. 460, I have had to read of late some wingless verse, and it was a delightful refreshment to find in your sonnet poetry that soared.
Hence ˈwinglessness.
1890Universal Rev. Apr. 536 The winglessness of the Madeira beetles. |
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