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Meanings of featherless in inglês

Having no feathers.

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Examples for "unfeathered"
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A roughly made bow with unfeathered arrow is a somewhat rare toy.
The Pagan Tribes of Borneo / A Description of Their Physical Mor...
2
Your eyes stand out of your head like a new-hatched, unfeathered bird's.
A Lady of Quality / Being a Most Curious, Hitherto Unknown Histo...
3
And now look at the beaten one, without voice, his neck unfeathered, a look of shame.
Saint Augustin
4
A little above the bend in the river we came upon an old gander and goose and two unfeathered young.
The Lure of the Labrador Wild
5
It is surely the most intelligent of all animals; the unfeathered bipeds, as the French wits call us two-legged mortals, excepted.
Anna St. Ives
Usage of featherless in inglês
1
Many have featherless, pink gaps at the back of their bodies too.
The Guardian
2
Here Loolowcan presented me the three birds, plucked featherless as Plato's man.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 / A Magazi...
3
They had large mouths and panting sides and tiny featherless bodies.
Stories of Birds
4
There is One who takes thought for two-legged featherless animals too.
Debts of Honor
5
Vultures flapping, their white wings stained red; bloody, featherless heads tearing and gorging.
The great hunt
6
The waving of his two featherless wings caused the great winds that froze Cocytus.
National Epics
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When baby parrots first hatch, they're featherless or covered only with a light down.
Map of bones
8
But we were speaking of progress when diverted by the discordant clamor of featherless crows.
The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast — Volume 12
9
He is the mere outline of a man-the"featherless biped" of the philosopher.
A Handbook of Ethical Theory
10
She once bought an ailing, featherless bird which she took to be a baby nightingale.
The new yorker
11
Because of their ill-judged moulting they are quite featherless.
The Mutiny of the Elsinore
12
The boy was small, his arms long and bony like the featherless wings of a bird.
The Tracey Fragments
13
They pointed and laughed at the featherless fowl.
A nameless witch
14
Some have featherless chests raw "from rubbing against the wire while feeding", Ahmed says.
The Guardian
15
The four fingers on each hand, creamy white and featherless, were as smooth as a child's.
The Complete Rama Omnibus
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He had four fingers on each of his two hands, which were creamy white and featherless.
The Complete Rama Omnibus
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