feather

     

Feathers are one of the epiermal growths that form the distinctive outer covering, or plumage, on birds. They are the outstanding characteristic that distinguishes the Class Aves from all other living groups. Other Theropoda also had feathers (see Feathered dinosaurs).

Trivia about feather

  • Proverbially, a praiseworthy accomplishment is this "in your cap"
  • If you're abusing your position, you do it to your nest; if you were Shaun Cassidy in the '70s, you did it to your hair
  • These are made up of a racus, barbules, barbs & a quill
  • Pluma can be either a pen or one of these, as from a swan
  • It's what a Robin Hood hat has in it, or what Yankee Doodle stuck in his cap
  • A mousquetoire hat didn't have ears; it was wide-brimmed & was adorned with one or more of these
  • A warrior once earned on by killing an enemy, so an honor is one of these "in your cap"
  • Quill(7)
  • Something pinnate is shaped like this (it's what "pinna" means in Latin)

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