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pteryloses

pteryloses is the plural of pterylosis.

Meaning of pterylosis

Noun

pterylosis (plural pteryloses)

  1. The particular arrangement of feathers on a bird.
    • In a detailed study of the pterylosis of the genus Passer (with special emphasis on the house sparrow), Clench (1970) identified nine feather tracts: dorsal, scapulohumeral, femoral, ventral, lateral neck, capital, alar, crural, and caudal.2006, Ted R. Anderson, Biology of the Ubiquitous House Sparrow

Questions about pteryloses

What is pteryloses the plural of?
Pteryloses is the plural of pterylosis.

Words near pteryloses in the dictionary

  1. pterylographically
  2. pterylographies
  3. pterylography
  4. pterylological
  5. pterylology
  6. pteryloses
  7. pterylosis
  8. ptesculentoside
  9. ptew
  10. PTF
  11. PTFE

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