volant
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Patrolling males can be seen braving strong surge, motoring stiffly above the reef like a majestic, volant pickup truck.
From Slate • Mar. 11, 2015
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
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
Finally, Frankie made a return volant to the U.S., still determinedly withholding his paw sinister from the gold circlet that anyone might wish to slip on his finger.
From Time Magazine Archive
Banners floated in air, colossal embroidery tissues Of Tyrian looms, scarlet, black, violet and amber, Or the perfectest cunning of trained Babylonian artist, Or massy embossed, from the volant shuttle of Phrygian.
From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 by Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)
