Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the wings white, wholly or in part: specifying various birds.
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Examples
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Six shots, five birds, two of 'em were white-winged doves.
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Mystery bird: white-winged widowbird, Euplectes albonotatus
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Six shots, five birds, two of 'em were white-winged doves.
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Among the distinctive bird species in the hotspot is the aforementioned white-winged guan (Penelope albipennis, CR), which is found only in the dry forests at the southern extreme of the hotspot.
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Her eyes are not being described as white: her hair is being described as white-winged a perfectly clear NP formed from the compound adjective 'white-winged' and the noun, er, 'hair'.
Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time 8: The Path of Daggers (1998) Adam Roberts 2010
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I have a bird feeder in my backyard and over the years I seem to have attracted a small group of white-winged doves that wait for me politely in the morning.
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Her eyebrows climbed as she directed her gaze back to them, eyes black as her white-winged hair, a demanding stare of impatience so loud she night as well have shouted.
Archive 2010-05-01 Adam Roberts 2010
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The Tumbesian Region EBA, with 17 threatened bird species confined entirely to it, including the white-winged guan (Penelope albipennis, CR) and the Peruvian plantcutter (Phytotoma raimondii, EN), is considered one of the three EBAs most critically in need of conservation action.
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Her eyebrows climbed as she directed her gaze back to them, eyes black as her white-winged hair, a demanding stare of impatience so loud she night as well have shouted.
Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time 8: The Path of Daggers (1998) Adam Roberts 2010
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Adam, you claim that "Her eyebrows climbed as she directed her gaze back to them, eyes black as her white-winged hair" is bad writing, and it plainly is; but it's comprehensible and parseable English, if clumsy.
Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time 8: The Path of Daggers (1998) Adam Roberts 2010
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