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Meanings of flightless in English

Flightless.

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Usage of flightless in English
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Researchers have found out what made two of our famous birds flightless.
Radio NZ
2
They're a species of flightless raptor, distantly related to hippogriffs and octogators.
James Potter and the Hall of Elders' Crossing
3
Gardaí have said they are investigating the case of the missing flightless bird.
The Irish Times
4
Consider the greater rhea, a flightless South American bird that resembles the ostrich.
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5
Imagine if you were a flightless bird with young to protect.
The Irish Times
6
Large flightless ducks called moa-nalo were once the main herbivores on the islands.
BBC
7
The Northern New Zealand Seabird Trust says flightless kiwi don't… Audio
Radio NZ
8
Several of these flightless swans were starved to death in 1902.
The Naturalist on the Thames
9
Most folks, Rant says, move through time like a flightless bird on land.
Rant: an oral biography of buster casey
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A flightless bird that survived here because it was never threatened.
Full Circle
11
Notice the flightless wings turned into flippers, which are often flapped very vigorously.
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12
They bring the total number of the flightless parrots to 93.
Radio NZ
13
They were large, bipedal, flightless birds, covered with reddish-gray scales instead of feathers.
The broken blade
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On Hawaii you can find flightless moths, flightless wasps, and even flightless flies.
BBC
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But how did such the strange looking, flightless bird rise to such lofty heights?
Radio NZ
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First to go was a flightless bird called a rail.
Dagmar's daughter
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