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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...
5
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