資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Brevipennate \Brev`i*pen"nate\, a. [L. brevis short + E.
   pennate.] (Zo["o]l.)
   Short-winged; -- applied to birds which can not fly, owing to
   their short wings, as the ostrich, cassowary, and emu.