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Pinnated :: Pinnated (a.) Having a winglike tuft of long feathers on each side of the neck.

Orbitary :: Orbitary (a.) Situated around the orbit; as, the orbitary feathers of a bird..

Kagu :: Kagu (n.) A singular, crested, grallatorial bird (Rhinochetos jubatus), native of New Caledonia. It is gray above, paler beneath, and the feathers of the wings and tail are handsomely barred with brown, black, and gray. It is allied to the sun bittern..

Ruffle :: Ruffle (v. t.) To erect in a ruff, as feathers..

Feathering :: Feathering (v. t.) A covering of feathers.

Feathering. :: Feathering. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Feathe.

Frill :: Frill (v. i.) A ruffle, consisting of a fold of membrane, of hairs, or of feathers, around the neck of an animal..

Exoskeleton :: Exoskeleton (n.) The hardened parts of the external integument of an animal, including hair, feathers, nails, horns, scales, etc.,as well as the armor of armadillos and many reptiles, and the shells or hardened integument of numerous invertebrates; external skeleton; dermoskeleton..

Gymnorhinal :: Gymnorhinal (a.) Having unfeathered nostrils, as certain birds..

Feather :: Feather (n.) A longitudinal strip projecting as a fin from an object, to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sidwise but permit motion lengthwise; a spline..

Puff-leg :: Puff-leg (n.) Any one of numerous species of beautiful humming birds of the genus Eriocnemis having large tufts of downy feathers on the legs.

Archaeopteryx :: Archaeopteryx (n.) A fossil bird, of the Jurassic period, remarkable for having a long tapering tail of many vertebrae with feathers along each side, and jaws armed with teeth, with other reptilian characteristics..

Bald :: Bald (a.) Destitute of the natural or common covering on the head or top, as of hair, feathers, foliage, trees, etc.; as, a bald head; a bald oak..

Clematis :: Clematis (n.) A genus of flowering plants, of many species, mostly climbers, having feathery styles, which greatly enlarge in the fruit; -- called also virgin's bower..

Featherly :: Featherly (a.) Like feathers.

Ptarmigan :: Ptarmigan (n.) Any grouse of the genus Lagopus, of which numerous species are known. The feet are completely feathered. Most of the species are brown in summer, but turn white, or nearly white, in winter..

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

Unfeather :: Unfeather (v. t.) To deprive of feathers; to strip.

Feather :: Feather (n.) Kind; nature; species; -- from the proverbial phrase, Birds of a feather, that is, of the same species..

Zooerythrine :: Zooerythrine (n.) A peculiar organic red coloring matter found in the feathers of various birds.

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