wing
/wɪŋ/ noun B1- An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly. · The bird was flapping its wings
- A fin at the side of a ray or similar fish.
- Human arm.
- Part of an aircraft that produces the lift for rising into the air. · I took my seat on the plane, overlooking the wing.
- One of the large pectoral fins of a flying fish.
- One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.
- Any membranaceous expansion, such as that along the sides of certain stems, or one of the bracts on a dragon fruit, or of a fruit of the kind called samara.
- Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower.
Plural wings
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Growing from her shoulders were wings, gorgeous in color and so light that they fluttered if the slightest breath of air reached them.
Their feet, however, became so smeared with the honey that they could not use their wings, nor release themselves, and were suffocated.
The Tortoise exclaimed in the moment of death: “I have deserved my present fate; for what had I to do with wings and clouds, who can with difficulty move about on the earth?”
Having broken her wings by the blow, she fell to the ground, and was caught by one of the bystanders.
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