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Pennach :: Pennach (n.) A bunch of feathers; a plume.

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

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

Whidah Bird :: Whidah bird () Any one of several species of finchlike birds belonging to the genus Vidua, native of Asia and Africa. In the breeding season the male has very long, drooping tail feathers. Called also vida finch, whidah finch, whydah bird, whydah finch, widow bird, and widow finch..

Plume :: Plume (v.) An ornamental tuft of feathers.

Pappus :: Pappus (n.) The hairy or feathery appendage of the achenes of thistles, dandelions, and most other plants of the order Compositae; also, the scales, awns, or bristles which represent the calyx in other plants of the same order..

Feathering :: Feathering (n.) The act of turning the blade of the oar, as it rises from the water in rowing, from a vertical to a horizontal position. See To feather an oar, under Feather, v. t..

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

Principal :: Principal (n.) The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing.

Sewel :: Sewel (n.) A scarecrow, generally made of feathers tied to a string, hung up to prevent deer from breaking into a place..

Radioli :: Radioli (n. pl.) The barbs of the radii of a feather; barbules.

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..

Radius :: Radius (n.) The barbs of a perfect feather.

Web :: Web (n.) The series of barbs implanted on each side of the shaft of a feather, whether stiff and united together by barbules, as in ordinary feathers, or soft and separate, as in downy feathers. See Feather..

Louse :: Louse (n.) Any one of numerous small mandibulate insects, mostly parasitic on birds, and feeding on the feathers. They are known as Mallophaga, or bird lice, though some occur on the hair of mammals. They are usually regarded as degraded Pseudoneuroptera. See Mallophaga..

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

Turacin :: Turacin (n.) A red or crimson pigment obtained from certain feathers of several species of turacou; whence the name. It contains nearly six per cent of copper.

Bird :: Bird (n.) A warm-blooded, feathered vertebrate provided with wings. See Aves..

Feather :: Feather (n.) A tuft of peculiar, long, frizzly hair on a horse..

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

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