feathern
adjEtymology From feather + -en.
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Rare Relating to or consisting of feathers.
- It may still be prevalent in parti-colored breeds where excellence of feathern pattern seems enhanced by slow juvenile feather growth.1978, Poultry Science, volume 56, page 875:
- From above looking down Your black feathern crown Why you always make a sound Can't stand still chi chi man […]2011, Lexy & K-Paul, “Like A Bird”, in Psycho:
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- When the le-gator finished its feathern meal, it roared loudly, a roar that set all winged creatures to flight, and it slunk its bulk back into the water and swam out to the middle of the pond, its eyes and nostrils the only parts of its dragonserpent body above the waterline.2013, Preston L. Allen, Every Boy Should Have a Man: