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Definition of Short-winged
1. Adjective. (especially of certain insects) having very short or rudimentary wings.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Short-winged
Literary usage of Short-winged
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Art and Practice of Hawking by Edward Blair Michell (1900)
"... known to naturalists under the name of " falcons "; and the short-winged hawks,
to which the men of science apply specially the name of hawks. ..."
2. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"Glabrous and not farinose: Ivs. paper-like, very broadly ovate-elliptic, serrate,
attenuate into short winged petiole: scape slender, 4-8 in. high and much ..."
3. Coursing and Falconry by Harding Edward de Fonglanque Cox, Gerald William Lascelles, Charles Richardson (1899)
"OF the short-winged or true hawks only two varieties are used in England, viz.
the goshawk and the sparrow-hawk ; the latter is common enough in every ..."
4. A familiar history of birds: Their Nature, Habits, and Instincts by Edward Stanley (1880)
"... short-winged.—Divers.—Crested Glebe.— Great Destroyers of
Fish.—Guillemots.1—Razor-bills.—Puffins and Auks. TABLE XXIX. (See page 23.) ORDER 6. ..."
5. A Familiar History of Birds: Their Nature, Habits, and Instincts by Edward Stanley (1835)
"... (Short winged). THE characteristic feature of this, the last tribe of the last
order of birds, is the extreme shortness of the wing, which, ..."
6. The Variation and Correlations of Certain Taxonomic Characters of Gryllus by Frank Eugene Lutz (1908)
"Difference between the constants of the short-winged and long-winged groups ...
When the constant for the short-winged group is larger than that for the ..."
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