long-winged

• “The long-winged conehead cricket is a slender green and brown insect with a conical head, and was first found in Britain only in the 1940s.”

  The Guardian: Weatherwatch: how to use a cricket as a thermometer

• “He goes back to work cementing the several woven limbs and then transforms the large, avian leaf structures into sculpted, long-winged bird figures, as if soaring far above the sculpted figure just beneath.”

  Fictionaut: Bear Circuit

• “Like several other orthoptera, including the wonderfully named long-winged conehead, the bush cricket is on a northward march, possibly as a consequence of climate change.”

  The Guardian: Country diary

• “The mayflies go through a long, lingering insect adolescence in the water before they transform into delicate, long-winged forms.”

  Simon & Schuster: Parasite Rex

• “Darnoway — they match your long-winged falcons, friend”

  The Abbot

• “And when Apollo heard this report, he went yet more quickly on his way, and presently, seeing a long-winged bird, he knew at once by that omen that thief was the child of Zeus the son of Cronos.”

  Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica

• “So said the swiftly flying hawk, the long-winged bird.”

  Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica

• “Zeus, well-skilled in song, tell of the long-winged 220 Moon.”

  Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica

• “And ready-witted Prometheus he bound with inextricable bonds, cruel chains, and drove a shaft through his middle, and set on him a long-winged eagle, which used to eat his immortal liver; but by night the liver grew as much again everyway as the long-winged bird devoured in the whole day.”

  Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica

• “Had B-29s been deployed in England, it would have taken only a short time to lengthen runways to accommodate them; and even before the atomic bomb was ready, these long-winged destruction machines, in this emergency situation, would likely have dropped enormous loads of incendiaries on German cities, creating a dozen more Dresden-like conflagrations.”

  Simon & Schuster: Masters of the Air

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