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
These quill-like scales layover one another and formed a heat-retaining covering more efficient than any reptilian covering that had hitherto existed.
From A Short History of the World by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Traces of it remain in the squids, but transformed into an internal quill-like, supporting, not defensive, skeleton.
From The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by John Mason Tyler
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
