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
• 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