TAIL FEATHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tail feather mean? 

• TAIL FEATHER (noun)
  The noun TAIL FEATHER has 1 sense:

1. feather growing from the tail (uropygium) of a bird

  Familiarity information: TAIL FEATHER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TAIL FEATHER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Feather growing from the tail (uropygium) of a bird

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("tail feather" is a kind of...):

flight feather; pinion; quill; quill feather (any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tail feather"):

sickle feather (one of the long curved tail feathers of a rooster)