Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having rounded wings, as an insect or a bird: as, the round-winged muslin, a British moth, Nudaria senex; the round-winged white-wave, another moth, Cabera exanthemaria; the round-winged hawks, as of the genera Astur and Accipiter.
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The latter, part of the planetary defense network, were narrow, round-winged craft armed with mis'siles and energy weapons.
Nor Crystal Tears Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1982
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"Gulábi-chasm" or yellow-eyed (like the goshawk) round-winged and ignoble.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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