flightless

FREQ #43970

a. 不能飞的

发音

US

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Unable to fly.

    Describing kinds of birds that normally cannot fly, such as the penguin, ostrich, and emu.

    Near-synonyms: apterous, wingless

    The indigenous fauna of Australia and New Zealand featured an especially interesting array of flightless birds.

  2. 2.

    Unable to fly.

    Describing an individual bird that normally would be able to fly but in this case cannot, such as an injured sparrow.

    The animal shelter has a flightless sparrow named Shiny, who seems to make up for his disability by being an avid runner.

  3. 3.

    Unable to fly.

    Suddenly deprived of a scheduled (airline) flight by its cancellation.

    幽默

    Oh great, some wind is blowing in Chicago, so now I'm flightless in Seattle, because this airline can't cope!

词汇关系

形容词

近义相关 1

wingless

相关短语

flightless cormorant flightless cormorants New Guinea flightless rail New Guinea flightless rails

词源

From flight + -less.

来源：wiktionary