Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A feather of the plumage of nestling birds, intermediate between the down and the mature feather: it bears on its tip the down and is in turn attached at its base to the neossoptile: correlative with
teleoptile andneossoptile .
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They gain a thicker coat, called a mesoptile, after 2 weeks.
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