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unfeathered

unfeathered adjective: lacking feathers.

Adjective

unfeathered (not comparable)

  1. Lacking feathers
    • On most birds, the tarsus is scaly and unfeathered, but a few arctic species--snowy owls, ptarmigans, and rough-legged hawks among them--have feathered tarsi.1988 February 5, Jerry Sullivan, “Field & Street”, in Chicago Reader
    Synonyms:
    apteric, featherless

Synonyms of unfeathered

Origin of unfeathered

From un- + feathered.

Questions about unfeathered

What does unfeathered mean?
Unfeathered means lacking feathers.
What part of speech is unfeathered?
Unfeathered is an adjective.

Words near unfeathered in the dictionary

  1. unfeasible
  2. unfeasibleness
  3. unfeasibly
  4. unfeasted
  5. unfeather
  6. unfeathered
  7. unfeathering
  8. unfeathers
  9. unfeatured
  10. unfebrile
  11. unfecund

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