short-winged
- s (especially of certain insects) having very short or rudimentary wings
- Like a speed-drunk bumblebee, his fat little, short-winged racer whizzed 30 times around a ten-mile course in 63 min.
- The bird was Gos, an untamed tiercel (male) of the largest European species of the short-winged hawks, only three inches smaller than a golden eagle.