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Significats de brachypterous en anglès

(Especially of certain insects) having very short or rudimentary wings.

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        It was the volume dealing with short-winged hawks and buzzards.
        Beasts and Super-Beasts
        2
        The short-winged hawks, on the other hand, are birds of the fist or the bush.
        A Cotswold Village; Or, Country Life and Pursuits in Gloucesters...
        3
        Suffice it to say, it is generally agreed now that the dodo was a gigantic, short-winged, fruit-eating pigeon.
        Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 440 / Volume 17, New Series, J...
        4
        Earthly hopes are necessarily short-winged.
        Expositions of Holy Scripture / Second Kings Chapters VIII to En...
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        In front of it several short-winged biplanes are lined up; inside it three or four young men are lolling in wicker chairs.
        Flying for France: With the American Escadrille at Verdun