| 单词 | plumage |
| 释义 | plumage (once / 1497 pages) n If you like the looks of the color and pattern formed by a bird’s feathers, then you like its plumage. The word plumage traces back to the French word plume, meaning feather, and it’s a way of referring to all the feathers that form the color and patterns of a particular bird. For example, birdwatchers study illustrations of birds so that they can recognize, say, a golden hawk in flight by its plumage. WORD FAMILYplumage: plumages USAGE EXAMPLESEven its brown plumage, amid all the prison gray, seemed colorful. The New Yorker(Dec 29, 2016) The amber also allowed the researchers to study the structure of the animal’s plumage in three dimensions. Science Magazine(Dec 08, 2016) They have sand-colored plumage that blends with the sandy beaches and shorelines where they nest. Washington Times(Nov 28, 2016) n the light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds Syn|Hypo|Hyper feather, plume down, down feather soft fine feathers aftershafta supplementary feather (usually small) on the underside of the base of the shaft of some feathers in some birds contour featherfeathers covering the body of an adult bird and determining its shape alula, bastard wing, spurious wingtuft of small stiff feathers on the first digit of a bird's wing marabouthe downy feathers of marabou storks are used for trimming garments hacklelong slender feather on the necks of e.g. turkeys and pheasants flight feather, pinion, quill, quill featherany of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird scapulara feather covering the shoulder of a bird duck downdown of the duck goose downdown of the goose swan's downdown of the swan plumuledown feather of young birds; persists in some adult birds saddle feather, saddle hacklea long narrow feather on the back (saddle) of a domestic fowl primary, primary feather, primary quillone of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing tail featherfeather growing from the tail (uropygium) of a bird body covering any covering for the body or a body part animal materialmaterial derived from animals |
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