Antonyms for feathersfeath·ers

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1. feathersnoun

   Synonyms:
   plumage, aigret, panache, remiges (quill feathers), down (soft under feathers), coverts, rectrices

   Associated words:
   plumassier, pterylography, endysis, ecdysis, moult, moulting, mew, desplumation, preen, barb, midrib, shaft, barbule, pompon, plumassary

How to use feathers in a sentence?

1. Ashley Poust:

   Living birds shoot up to adult size very quickly, mainly as a way of getting strong enough to fly as soon as they can. But they may delay getting their adult feathers for a long time. Gulls, for example, don't look like adults for three or four years even though they learn to fly in only three months.

2. Joy Kotheimer:

   We try to spend time preening the feathers, doing what parents would do, interacting with it. It's really to the age -- where it's like a toddler, where it's starting to really be interested in things, textures, it looks at the numbers on the scale when we weigh it, we're starting to see its personality - or its penguinality.

3. Suzy Kassem:

   A heart without dreams is like a bird without feathers.

4. Ashley Poust:

   I don't think we know yet how it used its feathers, it seems likely that they helped with temperature regulation and signaling to other animals, but what this would have looked like and how much these functions mattered remains unclear.

5. Graham McGrath:

   While the decision may ruffle a few feathers, gender neutrality in humans has only recently become a widespread topic of conversation, however, it is completely natural for penguins to develop genderless identities as they grow into mature adults, what makes us really proud at the aquarium is the success of Sea Life London's Gentoo breeding program and the amazing job of same-sex penguins Rocky and Marama who took the chick under their wing and raised it as their own.

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