brevipennate

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Having short wings; brachypterous; specifically, of or pertaining to the Brevipennatæ or Brevipennes.
2. n. A bird having short wings.

Wiktionary

1. adj. ornithology short-winged; having short wings.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. (Zoöl.) Short-winged; -- applied to birds which can not fly, owing to their short wings, as the ostrich, cassowary, and emu.