the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adj. Like or pertaining to a normal feather.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
In ornithology, having the structure of a penna or contour-feather; not plumulaceous.
In entomology, resembling the web of a feather; having fine, close, parallel lines springing diagonally from a single line: applied to color-marks and sculpture.
Word Usage
"Together the results favor an evolutionary sequence of feather filaments splitting to form primitive barbs without barbules - radially symmetric downy feathers with plumulaceous barbs- bilaterally symmetric plumulaceous feathers - bilaterally symmetric pennaceous vanes - bilaterally asymmetric vanes Fig."