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pilea

pilea is the plural of pileum.

Meaning of pileum

Noun

pileum (plural pilea)

  1. The top of a bird's head, from the base of the bill to the nape.

Questions about pilea

What is pilea the plural of?
Pilea is the plural of pileum.

Words near pilea in the dictionary

  1. pile-drove
  2. pile-on
  3. pile-ons
  4. pile-up
  5. pile-ups
  6. pilea
  7. pileate
  8. pileated
  9. pileated gibbon
  10. pileated gibbons
  11. pileated woodpecker

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pilea (page history and authors); pileum (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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