wingless

From wing + -less.

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wingless (not comparable)

1. Having no, or only rudimentary, wings.

   Synonyms: apterous, unwinged

   Antonym: winged

   Coordinate terms: brachypterous, subapterous

   • 2010, Ann M. Jayne, Kory's Jungle, page 145:

     Soon the plate was full of wingless bats and batless wings. He covered the plate of broken bats and quickly unwrapped the plate of cat cookies. Snap, snap, snap went their tails. Snap, snap, snap went their legs.

   • 2010 August 7, May Berenbaum, “This Bedbug’s Life”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     I was so thrilled to see a live bedbug, I showed it off to every graduate student I ran into that day: Cimex lectularius[,] a small, flat, wingless, brown ectoparasite that hides in cracks and crevices in human dwellings and emerges under cover of darkness to feast on human blood.

• Swingles, Wessling, swingels, swingles