FEATHER

• one of the light, horny, epidermal outgrowths that form the external covering of the body of birds
• consist of a shaft bearing on each side a series of barbs which bear barbules which in turn bear barbicels commonly ending in hooked hamuli and interlocking with barbules of an adjacent barb to link the barbs into a continuous vane
• the vane of an arrow
• plumage

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