primary feather
11feather — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ breast, neck, tail, wing ▪ ostrich, peacock, etc. ▪ flight ▪ …
12primary — adj. Primary is used with these nouns: ↑agent, ↑aim, ↑allegiance, ↑campaign, ↑care, ↑cause, ↑challenge, ↑colour, ↑commodity, ↑complaint, ↑component, ↑con …
13Flight feather — Flight feathers are the long, stiff, asymmetrically shaped, but symmetrically paired feathers on the wings or tail of a bird; those on the wings are called remiges (singular remex) while those on the tail are called rectrices (singular rectrix).… …
14flight feather — noun any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird • Syn: ↑pinion, ↑quill, ↑quill feather • Derivationally related forms: ↑pinion (for: ↑pinion) • Hypernyms: ↑ …
15quill feather — noun any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird • Syn: ↑flight feather, ↑pinion, ↑quill • Derivationally related forms: ↑pinion (for: ↑pinion) • Hypernyms …
16Covert (feather) — Upperwing of Orange headed Thrush, Zoothera citrina cyanotus A covert feather on a bird is one of a set of feathers, called coverts, which as the name implies, cover other feathers. The coverts help to smooth airflow over the wings and tail.[1] …
17axial feather — noun : a small feather between the primary and secondary wing feathers of some birds …
18flight feather — noun any of the large primary or secondary feathers in a bird s wing, supporting it in flight …
19Confuciusornis — Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, 125–120 Ma …
20Wing clipping — This article relates to birds. For clipped wing aircraft, see Wing. A wing clipped African Grey Parrot Wing clipping is the process of trimming a bird s primary flight feathers ( primaries ) so that it is no longer fully flighted …
