Crossword-Solution: WINGLET
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Winglet | n. | A little wing; a very small wing. |
| Winglet | n. | A bastard wing, or alula. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| WINGLET | anagram | WELTING |
We have 5 clues for the answer “WINGLET”
| Clue | Answers |
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| It turns up at the edge of a plane | 1 answer |
| Little pinion. | 1 answer |
| Part of a maple seed. | 1 answer |
| Part of an aircraft that helps reduce drag | 1 answer |
| small wing | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZACEME
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with WINGLET (5)
And thus thy pinion rests and roves,-- Alas! unlike the swarm of Loves, That brood within this hapless breast, And never, never change their nest! Still every year, and all the year, They fix their fated dwelling here; And some their infant plumage try, And on a tender winglet fly; While in the shell, impregned with fires, Still lurk a thousand more desires; Some from their tiny prisons peeping, And some in formless embryo sleeping.
All along the branches creeping, To their leafy beds of sleeping Go the blue-birds and the brown; Blackbird stoppeth now his clamor, And the little yellowhammer Droppeth head in winglet down.
The fluid which has been stored up in the pupa enters the winglet at the opening referred to, expanding the membranes as it passes along between them, and the nervures at the same time, and when it has extended to every portion of the wing, then it is fully expanded.
THE JAY GÁRRULUS GLANDÁRIUS Feathers of the crest greyish white, streaked with black; a black moustache from the corners of the beak; general plumage reddish grey, darker above; primaries dingy black; secondaries velvet-black and pure white; inner tertials rich chestnut; winglet and greater coverts barred with black, white, and bright blue; upper and under tail-coverts pure white; iris bright blue; beak black; feet livid brown.
And nought within the grove was heard or seen But stock-doves ’plaining through its gloom profound, Or winglet of the fairy humming bird, Like atoms of the rainbow fluttering round; When, lo! there entered to its inmost ground A youth, the stranger of a distant land; He was, to wit, for eastern mountains bound; But late the equator suns his cheek had tanned, And California’s gales his roving bosom fanned.
Quotes with WINGLET (1)
Darwin singled out the eye as posing a particularly challenging problem: 'To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree.' Creationists gleefully quote this sentence again and again. Needless to say, they never quot…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1954–2021).