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plumage
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Noun plumage has 1 sense
- plumage(n = noun.animal) feather, plume - the light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds; Array is a part of bird
has particulars: down, down feather, aftershaft, contour feather, alula, bastard wing, spurious wing, marabou, hackle, flight feather, pinion, quill, quill feather, scapular
has parts: vane, web, calamus, quill, shaft
is a kind of body covering, animal material
CIDE DICTIONARY
plumage, n. [F., from plume a feather.].
The entire clothing of a bird. [1913 Webster]
" It consist of the contour feathers, or the ordinary feathers covering the head, neck, and body; the tail feathers, with their upper and lower coverts; the wing feathers, including primaries, secondaries, and tertiaries, with their coverts; and the down which lies beneath the contour feathers. See Illust. under Bird ."
[1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
plumage, n. a bird's feathers.
Derivative
plumaged adj. (usu. in comb.).
Etymology
ME f. OF (as PLUME)
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plumage
Roughness
N roughness, tooth, grain, texture, ripple, asperity, rugosity, salebrosity, corrugation, nodosity, arborescence, pilosity, brush, hair, beard, shag, mane, whisker, moustache, imperial, tress, lock, curl, ringlet, fimbriae, pili, cilia, villi, lovelock, beaucatcher, curl paper, goatee, papillote, scalp lock, plumage, plumosity, plume, panache, crest, feather, tuft, fringe, toupee, wool, velvet, plush, nap, pile, floss, fur, down, byssus, moss, bur, fluff, knot (convolution), rough, uneven, scabrous, scaly, knotted, rugged, rugose, rugous, knurly, asperous, crisp, salebrous, gnarled, unpolished, unsmooth, roughhewn, craggy, cragged, crankling, scraggy, prickly, arborescent, leafy, well-wooded, feathery, plumose, plumigerous, laciniate, laciniform, laciniose, pappose, pileous, pilose, trichogenous, trichoid, tufted, fimbriated, hairy, ciliated, filamentous, hirsute, crinose, crinite, bushy, hispid, villous, pappous, bearded, pilous, shaggy, shagged, fringed, befringed, setous, setose, setaceous, like quills upon the fretful porcupine, rough as a nutmeg grater, rough as a bear, downy, velvety, flocculent, woolly, lanate, lanated, lanuginous, lanuginose, tomentose, fluffy, against the grain, cabello luengo y corto el seso.
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