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Meanings of short-winged in English

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

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        1
        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
        6
        Never in my experience has there been a worse spring season than that of 1903 for the birds, more especially for the short-winged migrants.
        Afoot in England
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        Her short-winged hive set to work in her head as usual, building scaffoldings of great things to be done by Chillon, present evils escaped.
        The Amazing Marriage — Volume 4