| aftershaft | the second shaft coming out of the quill of a feather. |
| alate alated | having wings. |
| alation | the state of having wings; the position of wings on a creature. |
| alula | three feathers springing from the base of the primaries > ALULAE or ALULAS. [L. alula, dim. of ala, wing]. |
| alular | pertaining to the ALULAE. |
| apterism | winglessness. |
| apterium | a bare patch on a bird's skin > APTERIA. [Gk. a, without, + pteron, feather]. |
| apterous | lacking wings. |
| aviform | bird-shaped. |
| axillar | a feather on the underside of a bird's wing. |
| barb | one of the filaments of a feather's web. |
| barbicel | one of the small hooklike processes on the BARBULES of feathers. |
| barbule | a hairlike structure on the BARB of a feather. |
| beakless | without a beak. |
| beaklike | like a beak. |
| beaky | beaked > BEAKIER, BEAKIEST. |
| becke | (Spenser) a beak. |
| bewinged | having wings. |
| birostrate | double-beaked. |
| braccate | having feathered legs or feet. |
| calcar | a spur-like projection on a bird's leg > CALCARIA; also a furnace or oven for annealing > CALCARS. [L. calcar, spur]. |
| calcarate | relating to a CALCAR, a spur-like projection on a bird's leg. |
| carina | a keel-shaped ridge on a bird's breast > CARINAS or CARINAE. |
| carinal | of or like a CARINA, a keel-like anatomical part. |
| caruncle | any fleshy growth on the body e.g. a rooster's comb. |
| clawless | without claws. |
| clawlike | resembling a claw. |
| cloaca | a sewer; a common cavity for the release of digestive and urogenital products in birds, reptiles, amphibians, most fish, and monotremes > CLOACAE or CLOACAS. |
| cloacal cloacaline cloacinal | relating to the CLOACA. |
| combless | without a comb or crest; as, a combless cock. |
| copple | a bird's crest. |
| covert | a feather covering the quill-bases of wings and tail of a bird. |
| craw | the crop, throat or first stomach of birds. |
| crissal | relating to a CRISSUM. |
| crissum | on a bird, feathers covering the underside of the base of the tail; undertail coverts > CRISSA. |
| culmen | the highest point, the upper ridge of a bird's bill > CULMINA. |
| culvertailed | dove-tailed. |
| dasypaedal | of young birds, having down. |
| dewlap | a turkey's wattle; a flap of skin under the throat. |
| dewlapped dewlapt | having a DEWLAP. |
| dowl dowle dowlne | (Shakesp.) a portion of down in a feather; a piece of fluff. |
| falconiform | shaped like a falcon. |
| fantailed | having a fan-shaped tail. |
| filoplume | a slender hairlike feather. |
| fissirostral | having a divided beak. |
| fledge | to provide with feathers or wings. |
| fledgy | fledged, feathery > FLEDGIER, FLEDGIEST. |
| forewing | a front wing. |
| furcula | the jointed clavicles of a bird, aka WISHBONE or MERRYTHOUGHT > FURCULAE. |
| furculum | the jointed clavicles of a bird, aka WISHBONE or MERRYTHOUGHT > FURCULA. |
| gastraeum | the under-surface of the body, esp. in birds > GASTRAEUMS. [GASTRAEA exists as a singular with plural GASTRAEAS, meaning an ancestor of the sponges]. |
| gizzard | a muscular stomach, esp the second stomach of a bird. |
| gonys | the ridge along and towards the tip of the lower mandible, formed by the junction of its two halves or rami (as in gulls) > GONYSES. |
| hallucal | relating to the HALLUX, a bird's hind toe, |
| hallux | the big toe; the hind toe of birds > HALLUCES. |
| herl | the barb of a father. |
| impennate | featherless; wingless. |
| ingluvial | of or pertaining to the INGLUVIES or crop of birds. |
| ingluvies | the crop or craw of birds. |
| latirostral | broad-billed. |
| lobiped | having lobate toes, as a coot. |
| loral loreal | pertaining to the LORE, the side of a bird's head. |
| merrythought | the FURCULA between the neck and breastbone of poultry, also called the WISHBONE. |
| moulten | having moulted. |
| nare | a nostril, esp. a hawk's. [L. naris, nostril]. |
| naricorn | the horny termination of a bird's nostril. |
| naris | a nostril > NARES. |
| neb | a bird's bill; (verb) to put a bill on > NEBS, NEBBING, NEBBED. |
| notaeum | the back or upper surface, as of a bird > NOTAEUMS. |
| palama | a membrane extending between the toes of a bird, and uniting them more or less closely together > PALAMAE. |
| penna | a feather, esp. a large feather of the tail or wing > PENNAE. |
| pennate pennated | winged; feathered. |
| penniform | feather-shaped. |
| pileum | the top of a bird's head > PILEA. |
| pinfeather | a feather not fully developed; esp., a rudimentary feather just emerging through the skin. |
| pinion | a wing; a small wheel with teeth; (verb) to fasten. |
| pinna | a projecting feather > PINNAE or PINNAS. |
| pinnal | pertaining to a PINNA, a projecting feather. |
| pinnatiped | having the toes bordered by membranes; fin-footed, as certain birds. |
| plumage | the feathers of a bird. |
| plumaged | having plumage. |
| plumate | having feathers or plumes. |
| plumelet | a small plume. |
| plumery | plumes, collectively or in general; plumage. |
| plumiped | a bird having feathered feet. |
| plumose | having feathers or plumes > PLUMOSELY. |
| plumosity | the state of being PLUMOSE. |
| plumous | having feathers or plumes. |
| plumula | a little feather or plume > PLUMULAE. |
| plumulate | downy. |
| plumule | a little feather or plume; a down feather. |
| plumulose | having hairs branching out laterally, like the parts of a feather. |
| premolt | preceding a molt. |
| proventriculus | the first part of a bird's stomach, aka GIZZARD > PROVENTRICULI. |
| pteryla | a tract of skin bearing contour feathers in birds > PTERYLAE. |
| pterylosis | the arrangement of feathers in definite areas. |
| ptilosis | plumage or mode of feathering > PTILOSES. [Gk. ptilosis, from ptilon a down feather]. |
| pygostyle | the bone of a bird's tail > PYGOSTYLES. |
| quill | the hollow basal part of a feather. |
| rachial | relating to a RACHIS, the spine or axis of a feather. |
| rachidial rachidian | of or like a RACHIS. |
| rachis rhachis | the spine or axis of a feather > RACHISES or RACHIDES, RHACHISES or RHACHIDES. |
| rectrix | the quill feathers of a bird's tail > RECTRICES. |
| remex | one of the large feathers of a bird's wing > REMIGES. |
| remigial | relating to the REMIGES. |
| rhachial | relating to a RHACHIS. |
| rhachis | see RACHIS. |
| rhamphoid | hook-beak-shaped, like e.g. a toucan. |
| rhamphotheca | the horny or leathery outer layer of a bird's bill. |
| rhinotheca | the sheath of the upper mandible of a bird. |
| rictal | relating to the RICTUS, the expanse or gape of the mouth, or of the beak or jaws of a bird, fish, etc. |
| rostrate rostrated | beak-shaped. |
| scapulated | with noticeable scapular feathers. |
| scapus | the shaft of a column or feather > SCAPI. |
| semiplume | a feather with an ordinary shaft but a downy web > SEMIPLUMES. |
| serratirostral | saw-billed. |
| spuriae | in birds, feathers of the bastard wing. N.B. no SPURIA*. |
| subalar | situated below the wings. |
| syringeal | of, pertaining to, or connected with the SYRINX of a bird. |
| syrinx | the vocal organ of birds > SYRINGES or SYRINXES. [Gk. syrinx, Pan-pipes, channel, tube]. |
| talon | a hooked claw or finger. |
| taloned | having TALONS. |
| tertial | a feather of the decorative inner part of a bird's wing. |
| tertiary | one of the feathers on a bird adjoining the secondaries. |
| tomial | relating to the TOMIUM. |
| tomium | the cutting edge of a bird's bill > TOMIA. |
| underwing | the underneath of a bird's wing. |
| unwinged | not having wings. |
| uropygial | of or pertaining to the UROPYGIUM, or prominence at the base of the tail feathers, in birds. |
| uropygium | the prominence at the posterior extremity of a bird's body, which supports the feathers of the tail; the rump > UROPYGIA or UROPYGIUMS. |
| vexil | the vane of a feather. |
| vexillar vexillate | of or like a VEXILLUM, the vane of a feather. |
| vexillum | the vane of a feather > VEXILLA. |
| wingless | having no wings. |
| winglet | a small wing. |
| wingspan | the distance from the tip of one of a pair of wings to that of the other. |
| wingtip | the end of a wing. |
| wingy | having or resembling wings > WINGIER, WINGIEST. |
| wishbone | the V-shaped bone formed by the fused clavicles of a bird's breast. |
| zygodactyl | (a bird) having two toes pointing forward and two backwards, as in e.g. a woodpecker > ZYGODACTYLS. |
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