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Meanings of wingless bird in English

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Usage of wingless bird in English
1
Along the shore of the sleeping lake our engine swept like a great, black, wingless bird of night.
The Last Spike / And Other Railroad Stories
2
At a distance of some fifty yards from where I stood I then perceived a huge, wingless bird.
Adventures in Southern Seas: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century
3
Apteryx, wingless bird of New Zealand, 44, 200.
The Doctrine of Evolution: Its Basis and Its Scope
4
Thus, the Apteryx, or Kiwi, of New Zealand, a curious, almost wingless bird, lays an egg which is about a quarter of its own weight.
Chatterbox, 1906
5
Of special interest to ornithologists were the native wingless birds of New Zealand.
Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission
6
'Very likely, but Chinamen without pigtails would be as absurd as a wingless bird.'
Chatterbox, 1905.
7
But I knew it was good and continued doing it, he told Reuters after submitting drawings of angels or wingless birds to the Museum.
Reuters
8
Except for the time I rang her cracking on to be Aung San Suu Kyi, thanking her for her poem, Oh, Wingless Bird of Paradise.
The Irish Times
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