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pterylosis

pterylosis noun: the particular arrangement of feathers on a bird.

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

Forms of pterylosis

pluralpteryloses

Questions about pterylosis

What does pterylosis mean?
Pterylosis means the particular arrangement of feathers on a bird.
What part of speech is pterylosis?
Pterylosis is a noun.
What is the plural of pterylosis?
The plural of pterylosis is pteryloses.

Words near pterylosis in the dictionary

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

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