volant
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
volant /ˈvəʊlənt/
▶adjective
- 1 Zoology able to fly or glide.
- 2 Heraldry represented as flying.
– origin C16 (as a military term in the sense ‘capable of rapid movement’): from Fr., lit. ‘flying’, pres. part. of voler ‘to fly’.
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