🔄 Synonyms of "Flightless"
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| Word | Definition |
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| wingless | Having no, or only rudimentary, wings. |
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| Word | Definition |
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| wingless | Having no, or only rudimentary, wings. |
| cormorantnoun | Any of various medium-large black seabirds of the family Phalacrocoracidae which dive into water for fish and other aquatic animals, found throughout the world except for islands in the centre of the Pacific Ocean; specifically, the great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo). |
| cormorantsnoun | Any of various medium-large black seabirds of the family Phalacrocoracidae which dive into water for fish and other aquatic animals, found throughout the world except for islands in the centre of the Pacific Ocean; specifically, the great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo). |
| impennate | (zoology, archaic) Characterized by short wings unsuitable for flying, covered with feathers resembling scales, as in the penguins. |
| pinfeathered | (ornithology) Having some or all of the feathers imperfectly developed. |
| ornithopodous | (zoology) Belonging to the taxonomic clade of Ornithopoda. |
| apteral | (architecture) Without lateral columns; applied to buildings which have no series of columns along their sides, but are either prostyle or amphiprostyle. |
| plumipednoun | (zoology) Having feet covered with feathers. |
| peripterous | (architecture) Surrounded by a single row of columns. |
| gymnopaedic | (Ancient Greece) Of or relating to the Gymnopaedia (a Spartan festival) |
| plumigerous | Feathered; having feathers. |
| protofeathered | Having protofeathers. |
| phasianidnoun | Any semiflightless, gallinaceous game bird. |
| aviform | Having the shape of a bird |
| brachypterous | (zoology) Having short, possibly non-functional wings. |
| ornithoid | Resembling or characteristic of a bird. |
| avianlike | Characteristic of birds. |
| brachypteran | Alternative form of brachypterous. [(zoology) Having short, possibly non-functional wings.] |
| bird-witted | flighty; incapable of sustained attention |
| wing-handed | (archaic, zoology) Having the anterior limbs or hands adapted for flight, as in the bats, flying foxes or pterodactyls. |
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