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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In ornithology: A supplementary feather growing out of a feather; the hypoptilum.
  2. n. The shaft of such a supplementary feather. Also called hyporachis.

Wiktionary

  1. n. ornithology An accessory plume arising from the posterior of the contour feathers of many birds.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Zoöl.) The hypoptilum.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a supplementary feather (usually small) on the underside of the base of the shaft of some feathers in some birds

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