Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having light or fleet wings.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having light and active wings; volatile; fleeting.
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Examples
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Be able to 'read' the genome, and identify the specific difference between light-winged PMs and dark-winged PMs in specific genes for coloration.
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Peppered moths come in two varieties in the very same habitat – light-winged and dark-winged.
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Establish (on #1) that the of rate dark to light caterpillars hatched from the entire breeding population has changed significantly from the time that light-winged PMs predominated.
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He dismissed her other suitors as “light-winged birds.”
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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He dismissed her other suitors as “light-winged birds.”
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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He dismissed her other suitors as “light-winged birds.”
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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He dismissed her other suitors as “light-winged birds.”
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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He dismissed her other suitors as “light-winged birds.”
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
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But we shall see how certain impressions, fugitive and fortuitous, carry us back even more effectively to the past, with a more delicate precision, with a flight more light-winged, more immaterial, more headlong, more unerring, more immortal than these organic dislocations.
The Guermantes Way 2003
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Then will he hear in the skies a noise as of half-suppressed laughter, and sometimes, though more rarely, he will behold the light-winged aërial forms of the merry laughers, as they thread the mazes of their dance among the clustering stars.
Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 (of 3) James Athearn Jones
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