Sentence examples for greater wing from inspiring English sources
Median and greater wing coverts green, tips boldly spotted with black.
The greater wing coverts are elongated with black at the ends, and the greater secondary and primary wing coverts and the six middle rectrices are black.
The swan's greater wing coverts and tertials were broad and curled, so that when closed its wings were ruffled like a rah-rah skirt.
Large species tend to replace quills irregularly, perhaps because their greater wing loading would make the lack of several adjacent quills disadvantageous.
The first preformative molt is partial, involving the body plumage, the lesser and median wing coverts, at least some greater wing coverts, and tertials; but this molt does not affect that rectrices, remiges, or primary coverts.
White-tailed is unique in having a yellow bill, large black patches on the greater wing coverts and primaries, and a largely white tail (this last feature is shared by Red-billed Tropicbird, Phaethon aethereus).
They are great big wings from great big chickens, plump beyond all reason and suspiciously tender.
The middle and proximal greater wing-coverts are orange-yellow (between chrome and deep chrome yellow), some of them, occasionally with a terminal spot of dull greenish or blue green, particullarly the South American specimens.
Immature male: Similar to the adult male but middle rectrices mostly dull black (the metallic coloring mostly confined to basal two-thirds of outer web of middle pair and basal outer edge of next two), lateral rectrices narrower at tip and with two or three white spots or bars on subterminal portion of outer web, and outer webs of secondaries and greater wing-coverts spotted and edged with white.
A definite diagnosis of scurvy, in both juveniles and adults, was made in skeletons that displayed active porotic lesions of the greater wings of the sphenoid, porous bone formation of the posterior surface of the maxillae (Fig. 2), and porotic lesions on the medial surface of the mandibular ramii.
UConn saw Lamb as its next great wing player, a sharpshooter in the mold of Rashad Anderson.
