Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having light or fleet wings.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having light and active wings; volatile; fleeting.

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Examples

  • Be able to 'read' the genome, and identify the specific difference between light-winged PMs and dark-winged PMs in specific genes for coloration.

    Darwin's Defenders Go Neo-Lamarckian 2007

  • Peppered moths come in two varieties in the very same habitat – light-winged and dark-winged.

    Darwin's Defenders Go Neo-Lamarckian 2007

  • Establish (on #1) that the of rate dark to light caterpillars hatched from the entire breeding population has changed significantly from the time that light-winged PMs predominated.

    Darwin's Defenders Go Neo-Lamarckian 2007

  • He dismissed her other suitors as “light-winged birds.”

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • He dismissed her other suitors as “light-winged birds.”

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • He dismissed her other suitors as “light-winged birds.”

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • He dismissed her other suitors as “light-winged birds.”

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • He dismissed her other suitors as “light-winged birds.”

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • But we shall see how certain impressions, fugitive and fortuitous, carry us back even more effectively to the past, with a more delicate precision, with a flight more light-winged, more immaterial, more headlong, more unerring, more immortal than these organic dislocations.

    The Guermantes Way 2003

  • Then will he hear in the skies a noise as of half-suppressed laughter, and sometimes, though more rarely, he will behold the light-winged aërial forms of the merry laughers, as they thread the mazes of their dance among the clustering stars.

    Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 (of 3) James Athearn Jones

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