Wingless insects are less scary than winged ones.
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Wingless
Synonyms for "wingless" (4 found)
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Adjective(1 words)
Related words (2)
Adjective(1 words)
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2 entriescoordinate
2 entriesderived from
2 entriesrelated to
3 entriessimilar
5 entriesTranslations
21 translations across 19 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἄπτερος adj (lacking wings)
Belarusian
1 entries- бяскры́лы adj (lacking wings)
Czech
1 entries- bezkřídlý adj (lacking wings)
Danish
2 entries- ubevinget adj (lacking wings)
- vingeløs adj (lacking wings)
Dutch
1 entries- vleugelloos adj (lacking wings)
Finnish
1 entries- siivetön adj (lacking wings)
German
1 entries- flügellos adj (lacking wings)
Greek
1 entries- άπτερος adj (lacking wings)
Hungarian
1 entries- szárnyatlan adj (lacking wings)
Irish
1 entries- dísciathánach adj (lacking wings)
Macedonian
1 entries- бескрилен adj (lacking wings)
Manx
2 entries- gyn skian adj (lacking wings)
- neuskianagh adj (lacking wings)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- vingeløs adj (lacking wings)
Polish
1 entries- bezskrzydły adj (lacking wings)
Portuguese
1 entries- áptero adj (lacking wings)
Russian
1 entries- бескры́лый adj (lacking wings)
Swedish
1 entries- vinglös adj (lacking wings)
Turkish
1 entries- kanatsız adj (lacking wings)
Ukrainian
1 entries- безкри́лий adj (lacking wings)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
Soon the plate was full of wingless bats and batless wings. He covered the plate of broken bats and quickly unwrapped the plate of cat cookies. Snap, snap, snap went their tails. Snap, snap, snap went their legs.
Source: wiktionary
I was so thrilled to see a live bedbug, I showed it off to every graduate student I ran into that day: Cimex lectularius[,] a small, flat, wingless, brown ectoparasite that hides in cracks and crevices in human dwellings and emerges under cover of darkness to feast on human blood.
Source: wiktionary
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