单词 | primary quill |
释义 | primary quill (once / 738707 pages) n WORD FAMILY primary quill: primary quills USAGE EXAMPLESPrimary Quills.—The long, strong quills, usually ten in number, forming the chief portion of each wing, and the means of flight. Piper, Hugh, Poultry—A Practical Guide to the Ch...(2012) The primary quills had not been moulted, and are quite those of the immature bird, with no white tip whatever. Smith, Cecil, Birds of Guernsey (1879)—And the N...(2010) n one of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing Syn|Hyper primary, primary feather flight feather, pinion, quill, quill feather any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird |
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