(Especially of certain insects) having very short or rudimentary wings.
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1It was the volume dealing with short-winged hawks and buzzards.
2The short-winged hawks, on the other hand, are birds of the fist or the bush.
3Suffice it to say, it is generally agreed now that the dodo was a gigantic, short-winged, fruit-eating pigeon.
4Earthly hopes are necessarily short-winged.
5In front of it several short-winged biplanes are lined up; inside it three or four young men are lolling in wicker chairs.
6Never in my experience has there been a worse spring season than that of 1903 for the birds, more especially for the short-winged migrants.
7Her short-winged hive set to work in her head as usual, building scaffoldings of great things to be done by Chillon, present evils escaped.