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  Definition of feather
  1. turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls
  2. the light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds
  3. grow feathers; "The young sparrows are fledging already"
  4. turn the oar, while rowing
  5. turn the paddle; in canoeing
  6. cover or fit with feathers
  7. join tongue and groove, in carpentry
Similar Words: feathering, plume, plumage, fledge, square

 

Hyponyms: down, down feather, aftershaft, contour feather, bastard wing, alula, spurious wing, marabou, hackle, flight feather, pinion, quill, quill feather, scapular

 

Part Meronyms: rowing, row, bird

 

Derivational Morphology: square, plume, preen, fledge, plumage, feathering

 

Anagrams: terefah, farther

 

Language Translations:
Bosnian: pero   Catalan: ploma  
Danish: fjer   Dutch: veer  
Finnish: sulka   French: plume  
German: Feder   Hebrew: אברה  
Hindi: पंख   Hungarian: toll  
Icelandic: fjöður   Interlingua: pluma  
Italian: piuma   Latin: pluma  
Latvian: spalva   Norwegian: fjær  
Polish: pióro   Portuguese: pluma  
Romanian: fulg   Russian: перо  
Slovene: pero   Spanish: pluma  
Swedish: fjäder   Turkish: tüy  
 
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