Definition of "winglessness" [winglessness]

• Absence of wings. (noun)

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• "This creature has its beetle ancestry written all through it, except again as with dolphins in those features that define its superficial appearance, such as its winglessness and its ant-like profile."
• "As children engaged in sport, O Sanjaya, having seized a bird and cut off its wings, merrily release it, but the creature cannot achieve locomotion in consequence of its winglessness; even so have I become, like a bird shorn of its wings!"
• "Such exceptional winglessness in members of a winged family can only be explained by the recognition of a life-story, not merely in the individual but in the race."