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plumage

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.

DEFINITIONS OF: plumage

n the light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds

Synonyms:: feather, plume

Types:: show 15 types...; hide 15 types...; down, down feather
soft fine feathers; aftershaft
a supplementary feather (usually small) on the underside of the base of the shaft of some feathers in some birds; contour feather
feathers covering the body of an adult bird and determining its shape; alula, bastard wing, spurious wing
tuft of small stiff feathers on the first digit of a bird's wing; marabou
the downy feathers of marabou storks are used for trimming garments; hackle
long slender feather on the necks of e.g. turkeys and pheasants; flight feather, pinion, quill, quill feather
any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird; scapular
a feather covering the shoulder of a bird; duck down
down of the duck; goose down
down of the goose; swan's down
down of the swan; plumule
down feather of young birds; persists in some adult birds; saddle feather, saddle hackle
a long narrow feather on the back (saddle) of a domestic fowl; primary, primary feather, primary quill
one of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing; tail feather
feather growing from the tail (uropygium) of a bird

Type of:: body covering
any covering for the body or a body part; animal material
material derived from animals

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