Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In ornithology, a feather of partly downy structure, possessing a pennaceous stem and a plumulaceous web. See
feather .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A feather which has a plumelike web, with the shaft of an ordinary feather.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology A
feather which has aplumelike web , with theshaft of an ordinary feather.
Etymologies
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semi- + plume
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