Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Marked with yellow on the wing, as various birds, etc.
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Examples
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In the previous post I discussed bird predation in the megadermatids (the false vampires or yellow-winged bats).
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Megadermatids, the false vampires or yellow-winged bats, are a group of the Old World and Australasian tropics.
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Though I came to this resolve from impulse, I think that I took the course which was in effect the most prudent, for the cheerfulness of spirits which I was thus enabled to retain discouraged the yellow-winged angel, and prevented him from taking a shot at me.
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For a short time after the yellow-winged monoplane had mounted and turned south and westward over the vapory river, the boys had a new sensation.
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Nothing less than a beautiful little yellow-winged moth that was caught and was beating his wings and fluttering to get out.
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I was once trying to catch a yellow-winged wood - pecker in its nest when my arm became twisted and lodged in the deep hole so that I could not get it out without the aid of a knife; but we were a long way from home and my only companion was a deaf mute cousin of mine.
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I was once trying to catch a yellow-winged woodpecker in its nest when my arm became twisted and lodged in the deep hole so that I could not get it out without the aid of a knife; but we were a long way from home and my only companion was a deaf-mute cousin of mine.
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I was once trying to catch a yellow-winged woodpecker in its nest when my arm became twisted and lodged in the deep hole so that I could not get it out without the aid of a knife; but we were a long way from home and my only companion was a deaf mute cousin of mine.
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If yellow-winged locusts appear in a man's house, the master of the house will die and that house will be overthrown.
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Before the burrows of _Cerceris tuberculus_ and other devourers of the weevil, and before that of the yellow-winged Sphex, the slayer of crickets, there is plenty of distraction, owing to the busy movements of the community.
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