volant
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L'eau va viste en s'escoulant, Plus viste le traict volant, Et plus viste encore passe Le vent qui les nues chasse.
From Salon • Sep. 3, 2022
Patrolling males can be seen braving strong surge, motoring stiffly above the reef like a majestic, volant pickup truck.
From Slate • Mar. 11, 2015
Thick squamofiber coats are present in the endothermic uromastyxians and agamiforms of the cool Asian continental interior and also in many of the volant khaodracians of Eurasia.
From Scientific American • Apr. 1, 2013
A volant khaodracian and marine seawasp, podarciforms, lugagub iguaniform and marine skink are shown at top; assorted varanidans, teiioids and iguanians are shown at middle; an acanthodactylid and anopsidian amphisbaenian are at bottom.
From Scientific American • Apr. 1, 2013
Fled what force she had To buckle the jaw-gape, wide agog For the Preconcerted One, The Anticipated, ripe to clinch the whole; Queen-bee to hive the hither and thither volant swarm.
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.