单词 | flight feather |
释义 | flight feather (once / 472773 pages) n WORD FAMILY flight feather: flight feathers USAGE EXAMPLESHe unable to fly when he was found because all 44 of his flight feathers were cut, apparently with scissors. Washington Times(Sep 16, 2016) "They were coming out of the egg with feathers that looked like flight feathers, claws at the end of their wing," McKellar said. Washington Post(Jun 28, 2016) During the trial, prosecutors described how Boyken pulled out the bird’s flight feathers and broke her leg so severely it had to be amputated. Washington Times(Oct 09, 2015) n any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird Syn|Hypo|Hyper pinion, quill, quill feather primary, primary feather, primary quill one 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 sickle featherone of the long curved tail feathers of a rooster feather, plumage, plume the light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds |
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