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- Wingless - a. - Having no wings; not able to ascend or fly.
- Thysanura - n. pl. - An order of wingless hexapod insects which have setiform caudal appendages, either bent beneath the body to form a spring, or projecting as bristles. It comprises the Cinura, or bristletails, and the Collembola, or springtails. Called also Thysanoura. See Lepisma, and Podura.
- Hesperornis - n. - A genus of large, extinct, wingless birds from the Cretaceous deposits of Kansas, belonging to the Odontornithes. They had teeth, and were essentially carnivorous swimming ostriches. Several species are known. See Illust. in Append.
- Glowworm - n. - A coleopterous insect of the genus Lampyris; esp., the wingless females and larvae of the two European species (L. noctiluca, and L. splendidula), which emit light from some of the abdominal segments.
- Lepisma - n. - A genus of wingless thysanurous insects having an elongated flattened body, covered with shining scales and terminated by seven unequal bristles. A common species (Lepisma saccharina) is found in houses, and often injures books and furniture. Called also shiner, silver witch, silver moth, and furniture bug.
- Tick - n. - Any one of several species of dipterous insects having a flattened and usually wingless body, as the bird ticks (see under Bird) and sheep tick (see under Sheep).
- Sphinx - n. - In Egyptian art, an image of granite or porphyry, having a human head, or the head of a ram or of a hawk, upon the wingless body of a lion.
- Pediculus - n. - A genus of wingless parasitic Hemiptera, including the common lice of man. See Louse.
- Deathwatch - n. - A small wingless insect, of the family Psocidae, which makes a similar but fainter sound; -- called also deathtick.
- Aphaniptera - n. pl. - A group of wingless insects, of which the flea in the type. See Flea.