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feathersome

feathersome adjective: characterised or marked by feathers.

Adjective

feathersome (comparative more feathersome, superlative most feathersome)

  1. Characterised or marked by feathers.
    • I've watched in the azure the eagle's proud wing, / His soaring majestic, and feathersome fling—— / Careening in liberty higher and higher—[...]1922, I.C. Tomlinson, The Revelation of Saint John
    • With the rise of writing 'leaf' was taken over as a reasonable word for the piece of material on which to write and 'quill' for the instrument with which to write, though the quill gradually became less and less feathersome.1992, Clive Sutton, Words, Science And Learning

Examples of feathersome in a sentence

  • Furthermore, the birds orientate themselves carefully with regard to the sun and gently flap their feathersome wings to increase convective cooling.1993, Shatrughna P. Sinha, Instant encyclopaedia of geography - Volume 9:
  • They didn't have to move to the east with the more feathersome Arapaho in '75 because they chose to be self- supporting and law-abiding residents of this here state capital.1999, Tabor Evans, Longarm 244: Longarm and the Devil's Sister:
  • Mind you, I do miss the royal, um, you know . . . plumpy-feathersome- spring-'n'-bounce?"2007, Angela McAllister, Ian Beck, Digory and the Lost King:

Forms of feathersome

comparativemore feathersome
superlativemost feathersome

Origin of feathersome

From feather + -some.

Questions about feathersome

What does feathersome mean?
Feathersome means characterised or marked by feathers.
How do you use feathersome in a sentence?
Furthermore, the birds orientate themselves carefully with regard to the sun and gently flap their feathersome wings to increase convective cooling.
What part of speech is feathersome?
Feathersome is an adjective.

Words near feathersome in the dictionary

  1. feathers
  2. feathers in one's cap
  3. feathers one's nest
  4. feathers one's own nest
  5. feathershank
  6. feathersome
  7. featherstick
  8. feathersticks
  9. featherstitch
  10. featherstitched
  11. featherstitches

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