Definition of Primary quill

1. Noun. One of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing.

Exact synonyms: Primary, Primary Feather
Generic synonyms: Flight Feather, Pinion, Quill, Quill Feather

Lexicographical Neighbors of Primary Quill

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primary quill (current term)
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Literary usage of Primary quill

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. On the Anatomy of Vertebrates by Richard Owen (1866)
"When the primary quill-feathers gradually increase in length as they are situated nearer ... In the Falcons each primary quill-feather is elongated, narrow, ..."

2. On the Anatomy of Vertebrates by Richard Owen (1866)
"When the primary quill-feathers gradually increase in length as they are situated nearer ... In the Falcons each primary quill-feather is elongated, narrow, ..."

3. A Manual of Zoology for the Use of Students: With a General Introduction on by Henry Alleyne Nicholson (1887)
"The "Wagtails" have slender bills, generally long tails, and the wings of moderate length, with nine primary quill-feathers. Besides the true Wagtails ..."

4. The Gardens and Menagerie of the Zoological Society Delineated: Published by Edward Turner Bennett (1831)
"... shoulders varied tawny and dark brown; scapulars blackish brown, more or less distinctly tipped with reddish white; primary quill-feathers blackish ..."

5. The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal by Royal Society of Edinburgh (1820)
"Yet Captain Sabine, on the authority of Mr Temminck, t égards the Silvery gull with white primary quill-feathers, as the mature Greenland summer dress, ..."

6. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum by Richard Bowdler Sharpe, British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology (1893)
"The general colour of this feather is similar to that of a primary quill of A. ... Portion of primary quill. Locality unknown. ..."

7. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1820)
"If the observation of Temminck be correct, the black markings of the primary quill-feathers of the Herring-gull, which have been regarded as essentially ..."

8. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1820)
"If the observation of Temminck be correct, the black markings of the primary quill-feathers of the Herring-gull, which have been regarded as essentially ..."

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