tail feather

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tail feather - feather growing from the tail (uropygium) of a bird

sickle feather - one of the long curved tail feathers of a rooster

flight feather, quill feather, pinion, quill - any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird

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Anas acuta Emu wren emu-wren flight feather junco lyrebird Piculet pin-tailed duck pin-tailed grouse pin-tailed sandgrouse pinion pintail Pterocles alchata quetzal quill quill feather sharp-tailed sparrow sickle feather Spinetail			Lastly, she put her dead husband's wig on the bare scalp of the pumpkin, and surmounted the whole with a dusty three-cornered hat, in which was stuck the longest tail feather of a rooster. Mosses From An Old Manse and other stories by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context In the above-described warfare, if a Pygmy chanced to pluck out a crane's tail feather, it proved a very great feather in his cap. Tanglewood Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context The Jacobin has the feathers so much reversed along the back of the neck that they form a hood, and it has, proportionally to its size, much elongated wing and tail feathers. The Origin of Species by Darwin, Charles View in context			Tai Hu Tai Long Tai Lue Tai Nuea Tai Yuan taiaha taichi taichichuan Taichung Taif taig taiga taihoa taikonaut tail tail after tail assembly tail back tail beam tail bone tail coat tail covert Tail coverts tail end tail fan tail feather tail fin tail flap tail gate tail gunner Tail joist tail lamp tail light Tail of a comet Tail of a gale Tail of a lock Tail of the trenches tail off Tail on tail out tail rotor Tail spindle Tail stock tail wheel tail wind Tail-bay Tail-end tail-flower tail-gunner tail-heavy tail-light			tail covert tail coverts tail cut tail deformity tail deformity tail deformity tail deformity tail deformity tail docking tail docking tail docking tail docking tail docking tail down tail down tail down tail down tail down Tail Dragger tail elevation tail elevation tail elevation tail elevation tail elevation tail end tail end Tail End Hop Off tail ends tail ends tail fan tail feather tail feathers tail fin tail fin tail fins tail fins tail flap tail fold tail fold tail fold tail fold tail fold dermatitis tail fold dermatitis tail fold dermatitis tail fold dermatitis tail fold dermatitis tail fold pyoderma tail fold pyoderma tail fold pyoderma tail fold1 Tail Gas Clean Up Tail Gas Treatment Unit tail gate Tail gating Tail gating Tail gating Tail Gear Box tail gland tail gland tail gland tail gland

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