downy feather

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• Downy — Down y ( [y^]), a. 1. Covered with down, or with pubescence or soft hairs. A downy feather. Shak. [1913 Webster] Plants that . . . have downy or velvet rind upon their leaves. Bacon. [1913 Webster] 2. Made of, or resembling, down. Hence,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Downy — See also Down feather and Downey. For the band, see Downy (band). Downy is a brand name of fabric softener produced by Procter Gamble and sold in the United States. It entered the U.S. test market in August 1960 and went nationwide in December… …   Wikipedia

• Feather — For other uses, see Feather (disambiguation). Feather variations Feathers are one of the epidermal growths that form the distinctive outer covering, or plumage, on birds and some theropod dinosaurs. They are considered the most complex… …   Wikipedia

• feather — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ breast, neck, tail, wing ▪ ostrich, peacock, etc. ▪ flight ▪ …   Collocations dictionary

• feather —   Hulu.   See bird.    ♦ Wing feathers, hulu ekekeu.    ♦ Tail feathers, puapua, analio; hulu ko o (long).    ♦ Feathers above tail feathers, pue.    ♦ Downy chicken feathers, ae moa. Ō ō bird feathers: pīlali (white and black under tail); ē ē… …   English-Hawaiian dictionary

• downy — adj. Downy is used with these nouns: ↑feather …   Collocations dictionary

• Flight 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).… …   Wikipedia

• Down feather — The down of birds is a layer of fine feathers found under the tougher exterior feathers. Very young birds are clad only in down. Powder down is a specialized type of down found only in a few groups of birds. Down is a fine thermal insulator and… …   Wikipedia

• down feather — noun soft fine feathers • Syn: ↑down • Derivationally related forms: ↑downy (for: ↑down) • Hypernyms: ↑feather, ↑plume, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• cul du canard feather — fine, downy feathers from the rear end of duck used in fly tying. There are few of these on each duck and they have a natural flotation because they are impregnated with preen oil …   Dictionary of ichthyology

• plume — plumeless, adj. plumelike, adj. /ploohm/, n., v., plumed, pluming. n. 1. a feather. 2. a large, long, or conspicuous feather: the brilliant plume of a peacock. 3. a soft, fluffy feather: the plume of an egret. 4. any plumose part or formation. 5 …   Universalium