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What does volant mean?

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Adjective
  1. (heraldry) Having extended wings as if flying.
  2. Flying, or able to fly.
  3. Moving quickly or lightly, as though flying; nimble.
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Among volant insects, behavior and time spent in flight varies greatly, both influencing probability of being swept off by the air stream.
These were, in the Portuguese version, per pale argent and vert, two roses dimidiating as many fleurs-de-lis, in dexter canton a dove volant argent.
The difficulty of keeping so great a mass of weighty metal in so volant an attitude, has been admirably overcome by the artist.
What aspect of the ratite genome accounts for the larger size relative to volant birds?
The positive allometry of flight speeds ensures that translational speeds of volant vertebrate predators substantially exceed those of their insectan prey.
Based on the fact that young M. lucifugus are volant at three weeks of age, parturition on Brier Island must have occurred by 25 June.

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