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round-winged, a.
[f. round a. 16.]
†1. Arch. = peripteral a. Obs. rare—1.
1715Leoni Palladio's Archit. (1742) II. 8 This prospect is call'd Peripteros, that is, wing'd round.., the same round-wing'd prospect remaining..to every one that saw the Temple in flank.
2. Ent. In the names of moths, as round-winged muslin, (white-)wave (see quots.).
1832J. Rennie Consp. Butterfl. & M. 275/1 Round-Winged Wave [114, The Round Wing, Cabera rotundaria]. 1869E. Newman Brit. Moths 27 The Round-winged Muslin (Nudaria Senex). 1887Cassell's Encycl. Dict. s.v., Round-winged white-wave, a British geometer moth, Cabera exanthemaria. 1907R. South Moths Brit. Isles Ser. i. 175 The Round-winged Muslin (Comacla senex)..; the wings of this moth are rounder in outline than those of the Muslin.
3. Applied to certain hawks, as those of the genera Accipiter and Astur.
1890in Cent. Dict. |