filoplume

English

Alternative forms

• filopluma

Etymology

From Latin filum (“a thread”) + pluma (“a soft feather”).

Noun

filoplume (plural filoplumes)

1. (zoology, archaic) A hair-like feather; a feather with a slender scape and without a web in most or all of its length.

Related terms

• pluma
• filoplumaceous

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “filoplume”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)