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flightless
[ flahyt-lis ]
adjective
- incapable of flying:
flightless birds such as the moa, rhea, and dodo.
flightless
/ ˈflaɪtlɪs /
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Origin of flightless1
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Example Sentences
A flightless, juvenal female was obtained by local boys at Pisté on July 21.
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The wekas or Maori hens are small, flightless birds, averaging when full grown about two and three-quarter pounds.
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The Ratitae differ from Archaeopteryx and the great majority of Carinatae in being flightless.
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In several instances I have treated of extinct flightless species under genera including existing species capable of flight.
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This appears to have been a very large species, with not very great powers of flight, if not flightless.
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