Illustrative Context

Birds have wings; people do not.

Target Sense

• The most generic noun for a wing as a part of the body of an animal, typically a bird, that (prototypically) allows it to fly in the air.
• The lexeme entered must be the default lexeme in the basic vocabulary that would be used in the prototypical case of a wing of feathers on a flighted bird of medium size (as defined for the separate IE-CoR meaning bird).
• Enter the generic term for the wing as a whole. Avoid narrower terms for specific types, forms, sizes or parts of wings, such as fin, gullwing, wingtip, French aileron.
• Follow common usage and basic vocabulary. Strict technical and biological classification criteria are not necessarily relevant — on this, see also the definitions for the separate IE-CoR meanings wing, snake and ant. So although lexeme entered must be the basic lexeme in the prototypical case as defined above, the exact range of application of the basic lexeme does not necessarily matter. Many languages extend the same basic term more widely, to include the ‘wings’ of insects, flying mammals (bats, flying foxes, etc.), and the (generally more rudimentary) wings of flightless birds such as chickens or ostriches. This is not a concern, so long as the basic lexeme entered is also the default lexeme for the prototypical wing here. Do not, however, enter any additional lexeme that is specific to any such narrower use and not to feathered wings of a flighted bird.
• The target sense is the literal body part of an animal. Do not enter any additional lexemes that predominantly or exclusively refer to figurative extensions of the lexeme wing in English, e.g. different words for the ‘wings’ of aircraft, buildings, cars, team formations, etc..