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Definition of Tail feather
1. Noun. Feather growing from the tail (uropygium) of a bird.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tail Feather
Literary usage of Tail feather
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Complete Angler by Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton (1859)
"Wings, hen pheasant's tail-feather, dressed long and flat and full ; body, large,
and long, of a mixture of light hare's-ear fur and yellow-brown mohair, ..."
2. Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America: With Introductory Chapters on by Frank Michler Chapman (1912)
"Inner web of outer tail-feather gray ; outer web of first primary , В. Bill mostly
... Outer tail-feather entirely pure white. 72. ROSEATE TERN (Im.). bi. ..."
3. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington by Biological Society of Washington (1905)
"... tail feathers except middle pair with similar pattern but amount of dusky
decreasing inward. Female.—Dusky on inner web of outer tail feather not rarely ..."
4. Masterpieces of Murder: An Edmund Pearson True Crime Reader by Edmund Lester Pearson, Gerald Gross (1876)
"Tail beyond end of middle toe - - i 7-8 J Although the outer and longest tail
feather extends 6-8 of an inch be the longest primary, yet this primary ..."
5. The Complete Angler by Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton, Edward Fitzgibbon (1854)
"Wings, hen pheasant's tail-feather, dressed long, and flat and full; body, large,
and long, of a mixture of light hare's-ear fur and yellow-brown mohair, ..."
6. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum by Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1885)
"In some of them there is no trace of white on the third tail-feather, whereas
three males from Mexico in the same collection have nearly as much white on ..."
7. Handbook of Birds of the Western United States: Including the Great Plains by Florence Merriam Bailey (1902)
"Outer tail feather without uniform dark stripe along inner web. ... Outer tail
feather with outer web whitish and inner web dusky 4'. ..."
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