Definitions for flightless

flightless flight·less

Spelling: [flahyt-lis]
IPA: /ˈflaɪt lɪs/

Flightless is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 342 anagrams from letters in flightless (efghillsst).

Definitions for flightless

adjective

  1. incapable of flying:

Origin of flightless

First recorded in 1870-75; flight1 + -less

Examples for flightless

A flightless, juvenal female was obtained by local boys at Pisté on July 21.

The flightless great auk, which at one time was common along the north Atlantic coast, belongs to this family.

There are flightless birds, but they all live in climates in which they can exist at all seasons.

It is large in the flightless Penguins, which use their wings for swimming.

Here we find the flightless Apteryx and a flightless goose now extinct, also the extinct Moa.

The wekas or Maori hens are small, flightless birds, averaging when full grown about two and three-quarter pounds.

flightless rails have apparently developed in the absence of predation.

It was probably a poor flier, though not flightless, as Fulica chathamensis was.

Several of these flightless swans were starved to death in 1902.

The first is the small group of flightless, running birds, made up of five living birds, all inhabiting southern lands.

Word Value for flightless
Scrable

17

Words with friends

19

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