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FLIGHTLESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does flightless mean?
• FLIGHTLESS (adjective)
The adjective FLIGHTLESS has 1 sense:
1. incapable of flying
Familiarity information: FLIGHTLESS used as an adjective is very rare.
Context examples
In the 1980s the colony on Pig Island in the sub-Antarctic archipelago of Crozet, about halfway between the tip of Africa and Antarctica, was estimated to contain some two million of the flightless birds.
(Study: World's Largest King Penguin Colony Declines Sharply, VOA)
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