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Definition of Filoplume
1. n. A hairlike feather; a father with a slender scape and without a web in most or all of its length.
Definition of Filoplume
1. Noun. (zoology) A hair-like feather; a feather with a slender scape and without a web in most or all of its length. ¹
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Definition of Filoplume
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Medical Definition of Filoplume
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Filoplume
Literary usage of Filoplume
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. College zoology by Robert William Hegner (1918)
"B, filoplume. C, nestling veloped in a pit rachis; suP-"mi>. superior umbilicus.
(From Parker and the feather follicle. A typical feather (Fig. ..."
2. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1907)
"He is covered with a short, dense down, sooty brown in color, interspersed with
a coat of long, black, filoplume- like down. The lower breast, the belly and ..."
3. Vertebrate Zoölogy by Horatio Hackett Newman (1920)
"A, part of a tail feather; B, filoplume; C, nestling down. cal, calamus; inf.
umb, inferior umbilicus; rch, rachis; sup. umb, superior umbilicus. ..."
4. A Course of Instruction in Zootomy (vertebrata.) by Thomas Jeffery Parker (1906)
"Pluck out a filoplume and examine it in the same way : note :— 148. The delicate
stem, showing no distinction between calamus and rachis. 149. ..."
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