quill
noun
one of the large feathers of the wing or tail of a bird.
quill-like
-
a word derived from
quill.
Example Sentences
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Bristling with quill-like proto-feathers, it looks like a roadrunner that mated with an anteater.
From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2016
One by one, Zeus searches for a particular code, dips into the corresponding well with a fine, quill-like probe and picks up a minuscule droplet of liquid DNA.
From Time Magazine Archive
When "Waugee-chick" was mentioned, it meant gold or silver; if "Aliquor-chick," reference was made to the spiral quill-like shells which served as their currency, their value increasing rapidly by the length.
From A Backward Glance at Eighty Recollections & comment by Charles A. (Charles Albert) Murdock
Among these distressed tribes there was developed a new type of scale—scales that were elongated into quill-like forms and that presently branched into the crude beginnings of feathers.
From A Short History of the World by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Most of them wore necklaces of "thaqua"—the quill-like white shell which is brought from the Pacific, and serves them for small change—and heavy earrings of the same shells, a quarter of a yard long.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 90, June, 1875 by Various
