flight feather

English

Noun

flight feather (plural flight feathers)

1. (ornithology) Any asymmetrical feather of the wing or tail of a bird.

Hyponyms

• primary, rectrix, remex, secondary, tertial

Related terms

• feather

Translations

wing feather

Catalan: rèmige Chinese: Mandarin: 飛羽 / 飞羽 (zh) (fēiyǔ), 撥風羽 / 拨风羽 (zh) (bōfēngyǔ) Dutch: slagpen (nl) f Finnish: lentosulka French: rémige (fr) f German: Flugfeder f, Schwungfeder (de) f Italian: penna remigante f, remigante (it) m Occitan: remige f Old Tupi: pepó Polish: lotka (pl) f Portuguese: remígio m Russian: ма́ховое перо́ n (máxovoje peró) Spanish: rémige (es) f, remera (es) f