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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

The three or four large quill-like feathers borne by the thumb form what is known as the “bastard-wing,” ala spuria.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various

With them also the scale became quill-like, and was developed into a heat-retaining covering; and they too underwent modifications, similar in kind though different in detail, to become warm-blooded and independent of basking.

From A Short History of the World by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

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 Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)