- are bony and
fleshy structures respectively. The
crest is made up of
semiplume feathers: a long
rachis with
barbs on
either side.
These are plumulaceous...
- are six
different types of feathers: contour, flight, down, filoplumes,
semiplumes, and
bristle feathers.
Feathers were not
originally meant for flight....
- plume, plumose, plumosity, plumulaceous, plumular, plumule, plumulose,
semiplume,
superplume †plūmula plūmul-
plumbum plumb- lead plumb, plumbaginous,...
- they
found the
traces similar to
those left by the
fibrous feathers (
semiplumes) of
modern birds, and
different from
those left by a
scaly body. The paleontologist...
-
secondary feather on each wing; a
state known as diastataxis.
semiplume Also,
semiplume feather. A type of
feather that has
features straddling the differences...
