feather feathering | turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls |
ostrich Struthio camelus | fastunning African flightless bird with two-toed feet, largest living bird |
feather plume plumage | the light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds |
down down feather | soft fine feathers |
sickle feather | one of the long curved tail feathers of a rooster |
contour feather | feathers covering the body of an adult bird and determining its shape |
saddle hackle saddle feather | a long narrow feather on the back (saddle) of a domestic fowl |
sea feather | corals forming featherlike colonies |
feather star comatulid | free-swimming stalkless crinoid with ten feathery arms, found on muddy sea bottoms |
flight feather pinion quill quill feather | any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird |
primary primary feather primary quill | one of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing |
tail feather | feather growing from the tail (uropygium) of a bird |
feather bed featherbed | a mattress stuffed with feathers |
feather boa boa | a long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur |
white feather | a symbol of cowardice |
ostrich | a person who refuses to face reality or recognize the truth (a reference to the popular notion that the ostrich hides from danger by burying its head in the sand) |
prince's-feather gentleman'sane prince's-plume red amaranth purple amaranth Amaranthus cruentus Amaranthus hybridus hypochondriacus Amaranthus hybridus erythrostachys | tall showy tropical American annual having hairy stems and long spikes of usually red flowers above leaves deeply flushed with purple, seeds often used as cereal |
Jerusalem oak feather geranium Mexican tea Chenopodium botrys Atriplex mexicana | Eurasian aromatic oak-leaved goosefoot with many yellow-green flowers, naturalized North America |
feather ball Mammillaria plumosa | a low tuberculate cactus with white feathery spines, northeastern Mexico |
blazing star button snakeroot gayfeather gay-feather snakeroot | any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads |
featherfoil feather-foil | a plant of the genus Hottonia |
feather reed grass feathertop Calamagrostis acutiflora | a variety of reed grass |
feather palm | palm having pinnate or featherlike leaves |
prince's-feather princess feather kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate prince's-plume Polygonum orientale | annual with broadly ovate leaves and slender drooping spikes of crimson flowers, southeastern Asia and Australia, naturalized in North America |
crape fern Prince-of-Wales fern Prince-of-Wales feather Prince-of-Wales plume Leptopteris superba Todea superba | New Zealand with pinnate fronds and a densely woolly stalks, sometimes included in genus Todea |
ostrich fern shuttlecock fern fiddlehead Matteuccia struthiopteris Pteretis struthiopteris Onoclea struthiopteris | tall fern of northern temperate regions having graceful arched fronds and sporophylls resembling ostrich plumes |
fledge feather | grow feathers, The young sparrows are fledging already |
feather square | turn the oar, while rowing |
feather square | turn the paddle, in canoeing |
tar-and-feather | smear the body of (someone) with tar and feathers, done in some societies as punishment, The thief was tarred and feathered |
feather | cover or fit with feathers |
feather | join tongue and groove, in carpentry |
feather one's nest | enrich oneself by taking advantage of one's position, The congressmen feathered his nest through his connection with big business |