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- noun Plural form of
plumage .
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Examples
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Their plumages are relatively plain: a palette of black, white, grays, and browns, often with a dark back and lighter belly.
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Most of the ring-billed gulls were in various stages of molt or of immature plumages but a trio of them who landed basically at my feet had the most perfect pristine plumage say that three times fast I have ever seen.
Archive 2009-07-01 2009
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Most of the ring-billed gulls were in various stages of molt or of immature plumages but a trio of them who landed basically at my feet had the most perfect pristine plumage say that three times fast I have ever seen.
foggy fishing 2009
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Physiological and morphological traits in warm-blooded vertebrates (mammals and birds) include thick fur and feather plumages, short extremities, extensive fat storage before winter, and metabolic seasonal adjustments, while cold-blooded invertebrates have developed strategies of cold hardiness, high body growth rates, and pigmented and hairy bodies.
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Notes on the weights and plumages of ducks in New Mexico.
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Scientists and naturalists regularly visited the island for specimens, usually attempting to take a “series” of plumages (meaning 18 or more pelicans for each collector), and “sets” of eggs.
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Pheasants, delivered cold and limp from the hills, had been vested with new plumages of apple and parsnip.
The Dragon’s Trail Joanna Pitman 2006
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Pheasants, delivered cold and limp from the hills, had been vested with new plumages of apple and parsnip.
The Dragon’s Trail Joanna Pitman 2006
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Pheasants, delivered cold and limp from the hills, had been vested with new plumages of apple and parsnip.
The Dragon’s Trail Joanna Pitman 2006
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Pheasants, delivered cold and limp from the hills, had been vested with new plumages of apple and parsnip.
The Dragon’s Trail Joanna Pitman 2006
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