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  • adjective having small wings

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Examples

  • Each pod contains up to 2000 small-winged seeds and resembles a giant pistachio nut.

    Royal Paulownia: The Perfume of Spring Along the Hudson Michelle Krell Kydd 2009

  • Each pod contains up to 2000 small-winged seeds and resembles a giant pistachio nut.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Michelle Krell Kydd 2009

  • In my bed, I'd watch the sway of the clotheslines on the rooftop outside my window and listen to the men playing pinochle at the dining-room table, the stogie smoke gray and small-winged down the hall.

    Archive 2006-11-01 Bruce Schauble 2006

  • In my bed, I'd watch the sway of the clotheslines on the rooftop outside my window and listen to the men playing pinochle at the dining-room table, the stogie smoke gray and small-winged down the hall.

    Getting Started with Poetry Bruce Schauble 2006

  • Although these strange, small-winged creatures had started long after the soldiers, they had quickly passed them, and were now beginning to mount toward our plateau.

    Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner Ellsworth Douglass

  • Violet and Peony stood laughing at this pretty sight; for they enjoyed the merry time which their new playmate was having with these small-winged visitants, almost as much as if they themselves took part in it.

    The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle 1900

  • Violet and Peony stood laughing at this pretty sight: for they enjoyed the merry time which their new playmate was having with their small-winged visitants, almost as much as if they themselves took part in it.

    Famous Stories Every Child Should Know Various 1880

  • Violet and Peony stood laughing at this pretty sight; for they enjoyed the merry time which their new playmate was having with these small-winged visitants, almost as much as if they themselves took part in it.

    The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle 1850

  • A small-winged woodpecker, and a large red-headed species, climb up and down the trees in sequestered places, and a thrush with a yellow beak and black head utters a sweet note among the bamboo groves and thickets; while owls, falcons, eagles and other birds of prey abound.

    Mark Seaworth William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • Violet and Peony stood laughing at this pretty sight; for they enjoyed the merry time which their new playmate was having with these small-winged visitants, almost as much as if they themselves took part in it.

    The Snow Image and other stories Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

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