remex
noun
one of the flight feathers of the wing.
remiges
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pluralof remex.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Its plumage is brighter and more glossy green and copper than bronzy-brown; it also differs from M. gallopavo in having far whiter remiges and a blue head decorated with orange, wart-like nodules.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 16, 2013
Many specimens show yellow remiges and rectrices, and are perhaps hybrids with the species auratus.
From A Check-List of the Birds of Idaho by M. Dale Arvey
The remiges remain sheathed, but the body feathers emerge from the tips of the sheaths.
From Comparative Breeding Behavior of Ammospiza caudacuta and A. maritima by Glen E. Woolfenden
Altogether seventeen remiges are represented, of which seven correspond to primaries.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various
The coverts, as in the African ostrich, are remarkable for their great length, those representing the major series being as long as the remiges, a fact probably due to the shortening of the latter.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various
