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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Downy; of or pertaining to a plumule; in ornithology, not pennaceous. See plumule.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. zoology Downy; bearing down.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. (Zoöl.) Downy; bearing down.

Examples

  • “Together the results favor an evolutionary sequence of feather filaments splitting to form primitive barbs without barbules - radially symmetric downy feathers with plumulaceous barbs- bilaterally symmetric plumulaceous feathers - bilaterally symmetric pennaceous vanes - bilaterally asymmetric vanes Fig.”

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