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remicle Ornith.|ˈrɛmɪk(ə)l|
[f. L. rēmi(g-, rēmex remex: see -cle s.v. -cule.]
A smaller outermost primary wing feather in some birds.
1887R. S. Wray in Proc. Zool. Soc. 344 [In the wild-duck's wing] the distal predigital (11) is always small and is designated the remicle. 1924Bull. Amer. Museum Nat. Hist. L. 316 In the three specimens of Gavia stellata seen in the flesh the normal number of quills, ten large ones and the remicle, were present. 1964A. L. Thomson New Dict. Birds 665/2 In most non-passerine species there are—not counting a remicle, if present..—10 primaries in normal individuals. |