feather-bone

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• 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

• White feather — White White (hw[imac]t), a. [Compar. {Whiter} (hw[imac]t [ e]r); superl. {Whitest}.] [OE. whit, AS. hw[imac]t; akin to OFries. and OS. hw[=i]t, D. wit, G. weiss, OHG. w[=i]z, hw[=i]z, Icel. hv[=i]tr, Sw. hvit, Dan. hvid, Goth. hweits, Lith.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• featherbone — ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun or featherboning ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ : a corset bone made from the quills of domestic fowl or of plastic * * * /fedh euhr bohn /, n. a substitute for whalebone, made from the quills of domestic fowls. [1885 90, Amer.; FEATHER + …   Useful english dictionary

• featherbone — /fedh euhr bohn /, n. a substitute for whalebone, made from the quills of domestic fowls. [1885 90, Amer.; FEATHER + BONE] * * * …   Universalium

• bird — birdless, adj. /berrd/, n. 1. any warm blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard shelled egg. 2. a fowl or game bird. 3 …   Universalium

• Bird — /berrd/, n. Larry, born 1956, U.S. basketball player. * * * I Any of the warm blooded, beaked vertebrates of the class Aves, including more than 9,600 living species. A covering of feathers distinguishes birds from all other animals. Birds have a …   Universalium

• Confuciusornis — Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, 125–120 Ma …   Wikipedia

• Origin of birds — For the book by Gerhard Heilmann, see The Origin of Birds (book). The famous Berlin specimen of Archaeopteryx lithographica The origin of birds is a contentious and central topic within evolutionary biology. A close relationship between birds and …   Wikipedia

• dinosaur — /duy neuh sawr /, n. 1. any chiefly terrestrial, herbivorous or carnivorous reptile of the extinct orders Saurischia and Ornithischia, from the Mesozoic Era, certain species of which are the largest known land animals. 2. something that is… …   Universalium

• art and architecture, Oceanic — ▪ visual arts Introduction       the visual art (art) and architecture of native Oceania, including media such as sculpture, pottery, rock art, basketry, masks, painting, and personal decoration. In these cultures, art and architecture have often …   Universalium