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What does wingless mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word wingless? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Having no, or only rudimentary, wings.
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There are three lineages of primitively wingless hexapods that lack a dorsal appendage branch, and one, the Archaeognatha, with such a branch.
Next came the four trilled vowels, and unlike the wingless race he resembled, the ava mastered them with little effort.
Thrips, as thysanopterans are commonly called, are slender and may be winged or wingless.
In hair follicle cells, for example, the wingless gene changes stem cells to skin cells.
Lice are wingless and they cannot jump, unlike fleas, but instead they spread through physical contact.
Like a wingless albatross I plummeted two storeys into an overgrown plumbago.

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