Usually means: Having wing spurs for defense.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. spur-winged: Merriam-Webster
  2. spur-winged: Wordnik
  3. spur-winged: Wiktionary
  4. Spur-winged, spur-winged: Dictionary.com
  5. Spur-winged: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. spur-winged: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  7. Spur-winged: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. spur-winged: FreeDictionary.org
  9. Spur-winged: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Spur-winged)

adjective:  Alternative form of spurwinged [(zoology) Having one or more spurs on the bend of the wings.]

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