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Uropygial :: Uropygial (a.) Of or pertaining to the uropygium, or prominence at the base of the tail feathers, in birds..

Psitta-co-fulvine :: Psitta-co-fulvine (n.) A yellow pigment found in the feathers of certain parrots.

Flag :: Flag (n.) A group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks.

Decomposed :: Decomposed (a.) Separated or broken up; -- said of the crest of birds when the feathers are divergent.

Feather-edge/ :: Feather-edge/ (n.) The thin, new growth around the edge of a shell, of an oyster..

Feather-veined :: Feather-veined (a.) Having the veins (of a leaf) diverging from the two sides of a midrib.

Intermediae :: Intermediae (n. pl.) The middle pair of tail feathers, or middle rectrices..

Spaniel :: Spaniel (n.) One of a breed of small dogs having long and thick hair and large drooping ears. The legs are usually strongly feathered, and the tail bushy. See Illust. under Clumber, and Cocker..

Unplume :: Unplume (v. t.) To strip of plumes or feathers; hence, to humiliate..

Sea Feather :: Sea feather () Any gorgonian which branches in a plumelike form.

Shed :: Shed (v. t.) To let fall; to throw off, as a natural covering of hair, feathers, shell; to cast; as, fowls shed their feathers; serpents shed their skins; trees shed leaves..

Spline :: Spline (n.) A rectangular piece fitting grooves like key seats in a hub and a shaft, so that while the one may slide endwise on the other, both must revolve together; a feather; also, sometimes, a groove to receive such a rectangular piece..

Feather-headed :: Feather-headed (a.) Giddy; frivolous; foolish.

Emu Wren :: Emu wren () A small wrenlike Australian bird (Stipiturus malachurus), having the tail feathers long and loosely barbed, like emu feathers..

Fork-tailed :: Fork-tailed (a.) Having the outer tail feathers longer than the median ones; swallow-tailed; -- said of many birds.

Fledge :: Fledge (v. t. & i.) To furnish with feathers; to supply with the feathers necessary for flight.

Bird :: Bird (n.) Orig., a chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling; and hence, a feathered flying animal (see 2)..

Pterylosis :: Pterylosis (n.) The arrangement of feathers in definite areas.

Hypoptilum :: Hypoptilum (n.) An accessory plume arising from the posterior side of the stem of the contour feathers of many birds; -- called also aftershaft. See Illust. of Feather.

Pennage :: Pennage (n.) Feathery covering; plumage.

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