WINGED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does winged mean? 

• WINGED (adjective)
  The adjective WINGED has 2 senses:

1. having wings or as if having wings of a specified kind

2. very fast; as if with wings

  Familiarity information: WINGED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WINGED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having wings or as if having wings of a specified kind

Context example:

the winged feet of Mercury

Similar:

alar; alary; aliform; wing-shaped (having or resembling wings)

alate; alated ((of seeds or insects) having winglike extensions)

batwing (formed or shaped like a bat's wing)

brachypterous; short-winged ((especially of certain insects) having very short or rudimentary wings)

one-winged (having a single wing)

pinioned ((of birds) especially having the flight feathers)

slender-winged (having slender wings)

small-winged (having small wings)

volant (with wings extended in a flying position)

winglike (resembling a wing in shape or position)

Antonym:

wingless (lacking wings)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Very fast; as if with wings

Context example:

on winged feet

Similar:

fast (acting or moving or capable of acting or moving quickly)

 Context examples 

Scientists identified genes that influence whether aphids produce wingless or winged offspring.

(Virus genes help determine if pea aphids get wings, National Science Foundation)

Ginkgo has large seeds with a fleshy outer covering, but U. mongoliensis has small, winged seeds.

(Paleontologists find fossil relative of Ginkgo biloba, NSF)

The family is defined by a conserved DNA-binding domain (the ETS-DBD), which forms a highly conserved, winged, helix-turn-helix structural motif.

(ETS Family Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

“These three gander-winged shafts are such.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It’s a double-winged house, and the servants live on one side, the family on the other.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

That is significant, because it strengthens the case the first "bat-winged" fossil, located in 2015 from a location only 50 miles away, was indeed a flyer.

(Second Bat-Like Dinosaur Discovered in China, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The researchers studied migration patterns in golden-winged warblers and blue-winged warblers, genetically similar species.

(New insights into genetic basis of bird migration, National Science Foundation)

It was because of her loss that she paid no attention to the winged bolt of the sky.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

It stood for success, and the eagles stamped upon the coins were to him so many winged victories.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The winged fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness to childish hearts than all other human creations.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)