Pennaceous

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  • adj. having the structure of a normal feather
  • 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."