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SPINES |
Quills |
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FEATHERS |
Quills |
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PENNIGEROUS |
Bearing feathers or quills. |
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LONGIPENNATE |
Having long wings, or quills. |
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QUILLED |
Furnished with quills; also, shaped like quills. |
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SPINE-TAILED |
Having the tail quills ending in sharp, naked tips. |
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TERTIARY |
Growing on the innermost joint of a bird's wing; tertial;
-- said of quills. |
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STATIONERY |
The articles usually sold by stationers, as paper,
pens, ink, quills, blank books, etc. |
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STATIONER |
One who sells paper, pens, quills, inkstands, pencils,
blank books, and other articles used in writing. |
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FEATHER |
One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds,
belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down. |
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IMPENNES |
An order of birds, including only the penguins, in
which the wings are without quills, and not suited for flight. |
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WIRE-TAILED |
Having some or all of the tail quills terminated in a
long, slender, pointed shaft, without a web or barbules. |
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QUILLING |
A band of linen, muslin, or the like, fluted, folded, or
plaited so as somewhat to resemble a row of quills. |
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COVERT |
One of the special feathers covering the bases of the
quills of the wings and tail of a bird. See Illust. of Bird. |
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SAURURAE |
An extinct order of birds having a long vertebrated
tail with quills along each side of it. Archaeopteryx is the type. See
Archaeopteryx, and Odontornithes. |
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PORCUPINE |
...the
back covered with long, sharp, erectile spines or quills, sometimes a
foot long. The common species of Europe and Asia (Hystrix cristata) is... |
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SPECULUM |
... wings
of ducks and some other birds. It is usually situated on the distal
portions of the secondary quills, and is much more brilliant in the
... |
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HARPSICHORD |
...y on
legs, like the grand piano, with strings of wire, played by the
fingers, by means of keys provided with quills, instead of hammers, for
... |
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WAXWING |
Any one of several species of small birds of the genus
Ampelis, in which some of the secondary quills are usually tipped with
small horny ornam... |
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PENGUIN |
...ey are
covered with short, thick feathers, almost scalelike on the wings,
which are without true quills. They are unable to fly, but use their
... |
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YELLOWHAMMER |
...nd brown, and the top of the head and
the tail quills blackish. Called also yellow bunting, scribbling lark,
and writing lark. ... |
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KINGBIRD |
... above, and blackish on the head
and tail. The quills and wing coverts are whitish at the edges. It is
white beneath, with a white terminal band... |