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feather-footed
ˈfeather-ˈfooted, a. a. Having feet covered with feathers. b. fig. Moving silently and swiftly.a. 1580 Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong., Coulon, or pigeon Pattu, fether-footed doues or pigeons. 1868 Darwin Anim. & Pl. I. viii. 295 There is a feather-footed breed.b. 1565 Golding Ovid's Met. ii. 31 He bad t...
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William Boot
His affected style is typified in the notorious sentence "Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole".
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feather
▪ I. feather, n. (ˈfɛðə(r)) Forms: α. 1, 2 feðer, 3 south. veðer, 2–5 feþer(e, -ir, 4–6 feder, 5 fedder, 5 fedyr, 4–6 fether, 6– feather. β. 1 fiðer(e, fyðer(e, 2 fi-, fyðer, 2, 4 fyþer. [Com. Teut. OE. feðer str. fem. = OS. fethara (Du. veder, veer), OHG. fedara (MHG. veder(e, mod.G. feder), ON. fi...
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Booted Bantam
Feather-footed bantams have been present in Europe for hundreds of years; birds of this type are pictured in the works of Ulisse Aldrovandi and Aelbert The bearded and feather-footed Barbu d'Uccle was created in the early years of the twentieth century by cross-breeding birds of this breed with Barbu d'Anvers
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plumiped
ˈplumiped, a. rare. [ad. L. plūmipēs, -pedem feather-footed, f. plūma plume + pēs, ped- foot.] Having plumed or winged feet.1727 Bailey vol. II, Plumipede, having feathered feet. a 1890 R. F. Burton tr. Catullus, Carmina lv. 25 Not if with Pegasèan wing I sped, Or Ladas I or Perseus plumiped.
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Arrow
Footed arrows
Sometimes a shaft will be made of two different types of wood fastened together, resulting in what is known as a footed arrow. With conventional three-feather fletching, one feather, called the "cock" feather, is at a right angle to the nock, and is normally nocked so that it will
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Jymn Magon
He also wrote three of the episodes for Sitting Ducks: "Feather Island/King of the Bongos", "Holding Pen 13/Daredevill Ducks" and "Iced Duck/Duck Footed
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Vole (magazine)
was The Questing Vole, a quotation from the fictitious nature column written by William Boot, the protagonist of Evelyn Waugh's novel Scoop (1938) – "Feather-footed
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Canalipalpata
Canalipalpata, also known as bristle-footed annelids or fan-head worms, is an order of polychaete worms, with 31 families in it including the suborder Sabellida (families Serpulidae (tubeworms) and Sabellidae (fanworms and feather duster worms) and the Alvinellidae, a family of deep-sea worms associated
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Crested moa
Almost nothing is known about the feather pits on the crested moa's skull. It was the ecological equivalent of the heavy-footed moa in the subalpine zone.
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Trichopoda
Trichopoda is a genus of tachinid flies, commonly known as the feather-legged flies or hairy-legged flies. The larvae are parasitoids of true bugs in the order Hemiptera, including stink bugs in the family Pentatomidae and leaf-footed bugs and squash bugs in
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Tube worm
taxa:
Annelida, the phylum containing segmented worms
Polychaetea, the class containing bristle worms
Canalipalpata, the order containing bristle-footed beard worms
Riftia pachyptila, a species known as giant tube worms
Lamellibrachia, a genus
Serpulidae, a family
Sabellidae, the family containing feather
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Yergeni
Flora and fauna
The climate is semi-desert and the hills are mostly covered with grasses and shrubs, including feather grass, Volga fescue, wormwood and Some of the animals found in the hills are the demoiselle crane, the eastern imperial eagle, steppe eagle, red-footed falcon, white-winged lark and the
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Trichopoda pennipes
Trichopoda pennipes is a species of feather-legged fly in the dipteran family Tachinidae. The hind legs bear a prominent feather-like fringe of flattened hairs.
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Grey-faced petrel
They have a dark black-brown colouration, similar to that of the black-footed albatross, with a black bill and pale grey to buff feathers at the base of After breeding the adults mostly migrate across to the seas off eastern and southern Australia to carry out their annual feather moult.
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